Fall Final Review

several different populations living in the area together

• autoroph

• population

• community

• biotic

an organism that is capable of making its own food

• consumer

• parasitism

• autotroph

• mutualism

a type of relationship in which one organism is benefited and one is harmed

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• community

an organism that has to eat others to gets its food

• consumer

• autotroph

• food chain

• population

a relationship in which both organisms benefit

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

• biotic

largest number of individuals of a species that an environment can support

• exponential growth

• secondary succession

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

the first organism to appear during succession

• predator-prey

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• pioneer species

orderly change that occurs in a place where soil remains after a community of organisms has been removed

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• primary succession

• secondary succession

process in which nitrogen gas is captured and converted to a form plants can use

• carbon cycle

• limiting factor

• nitrogen fixation

• decomposition

establishment of a community in an area of bare rock or bare sand where there is no topsoil present

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• exponential growth

• limiting factor