last Test Flashcards
Living organism in the environment
Biotic factor
Non living parts of the environment
Abiotic factor
A living thing
Organism
Eats meat and plants (humans)
Omnivore
the process by which the structure of a biological community evolves over time, the formation of a new community.
Succession
occurs in essentially lifeless areas- regions in which the soil is incapable of sustaining life as a result of such factors as glaciers, newly formed islands, or lava left from a volcanic eruption.
primary succession
occurs in areas where a community that previously existed has been removed; it is typified by smaller-scale disturbances that do not eliminate all life and nutrients from the environment:
secondary succession
relationship in which one species lives on, in, or near another species and affects its survival
symbiosis
known for traveling on the HMS beagle and for exploring the Galapagos islands, and studying tortoises, iguanas, finches.
charles Darwin
type of symbiosis which both species benefit
mutualism
type of symbiosis in which one species benefits and the other species is neither harmed or benefited.
commensalism
type of symbiosis in which one species benefits and the other species is harmed.
parasitism
organisms that cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms
consumer
organisms that make their own food ( plants and some bacteria)
producer
eat plants (cows)
herbivore
