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ECOLOGY
BY: ROSE PULIRE, AVERY TIMAR, HOPE SPENCER,
NATALIE PIERPOINT
SPECIES POPULATION
• All individuals of a species
• Example: Each and every yellow tuna fish in the
species of yellow tuna fish
HABITAT
• A natural home or environment of an animal or
plant or another organism
• Physical location where these plants and animals
can live
• Example: A Red Eyed Tree Frog habitat is the rain
forest
Habitat
for Polar
Bears
Habitat for Red Eyed
Tree Frogs
COMPETITION
• The activity or condition of competing
• Example: Sea Lions compete to be the kind of the
island with all the female sea lions
COMMUNITY
• A group of populations that live in a particular area
and interact with one another.
• Example: Fish, whales, sharks, and underwater
plants all live in the ocean as a community
COMMENSALISM
• an association between two organisms in which
one organism benefits and the other neither derives
neither benefits or harmed
• Example: The Crocodiles lets the Hippos chew or lick
their spine, the Crocodiles aren’t benefited or
harmed but the Hippos are benefitted
PREY
• An animal that is eaten by a predator
• Example: Fish are the prey to a Shark
Prey
MUTUALISM
• An interaction between two species that benefit
both
• Example: The Crocodile and Plover bird benefit
because the bird gets to eat the food in the
crocodiles teeth and the crocodile gets a nice
mouth cleaning and is free for infection
LIMITING FACTORS
• Any factor or condition that limits the growth of a
population and an ecosystem.
• Example: A large population of predators will limit
the population of prey
One of the most influential factors in
dictated population size is the
predator/prey relationship changes in
one cause changes in the other.
PIONEER SPECIES
• Are the first living things to move into previously
damaged ecosystem.
• Example: Moss and lichen move in after a glacier
retreats
Lichen
and
Moss
CARRYING CAPACITY
• The number or quantity of people or things that can
be conveyed or held by a vehicle or containers
• Example: Largest amount of animals that an
environment can hold
How
much
people
the
room
can
hold
How much the
bucket can
hold is the
carrying
capacity
PREDATOR
• An animal that naturally preys on others
• Example: Wolf and Moose, the wolf is the predator
and the moose is the prey.
Predator
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/cobra-vs-mongoose-predation
SUCCESSION
• is the observed process of change in the species
structure of an ecological community over time
• Example: A change from a field to a forest
Plant Succession
NICHE
• a position or role taken by a kind of organism within
its community.
• Example: The shape of the bill of the Purplethroated Carib is complementary to the shape of
the flower, enabling it to exploit the nectar as a
resource.
PARASITISM
• non-mutual symbiotic relationship between
species, where one species, the parasite, benefits
at the expense of the other, the host.
• Example: Ticks and Dogs
SYMBIOSIS
• close and often long-term interaction between two
or more different biological species
• Example: Clown Fish and Anemone