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Limiting Factor

Factors that can limit the growth of a population

Biotic Potential

The potential growth of a population if it could grow in perfect conditions with no limiting factor

Carrying Capacity

The largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time

Habitat

The physical place where a population or organism lives

Niche

The unique ways an organism survives, obtains food and shelter, and avoids danger

Symbolic Relationship

One in which two different species lives together and interact closely over a long period of time

Population Density

The number of organisms in the population related to the space available

Overpopulation

When a population's size grows beyond the ability of the area to support it

Mutualism

A symbolic relationship in which two species in a community benefits from a relationship

Parasitism

A symbolic relationship in which one species(the parasite) while another (the host) is harmed

Commensalism

A symbolic relationship where one species benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed

Population

Made up of all the members of one species that live in an area

Community

All the populations living in an ecosystem at the same time

Random Sampling

You divide an area into units and count how many plants are in a unit and then you add them all up and divide by how many units have plants and also mulitply the number of plants there are and how many units there are to get the two answers

Mark and Release

You go into an area and you catch a species mark them and release them and you do it over time to get an estimation on how many of a species are left in an area