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| the study of living things and the interactions with one another. |
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non-living things or factors
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stones, temperature, etc. |
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Living things or factors.
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humans, animals, plants, etc. |
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An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
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Plants, Protist, algae. |
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Organisms that eat other organisms in order to survive.
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humans, animals. |
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organism that feed only on flesh and meat.
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lions, tigers, crocodiles, cheetahs, wovles.
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and organism that feeds only on plants anf fruits.
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goats, cows, horses, zebra. |
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organmism that feed on both flesh and plants.
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Humans, pigs, bears, etc. |
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| is a relationship in which both organisms benefit. |
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| a relationship in which one organism benefits, and the other is neither hurt nor harmed. |
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| A biological interaction in which a predator feeds on its prey. |
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| is a biological interaction in which one organism lives in or on another organism (the Host). Overtime harms the host while it benefits |
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| a relationship in which organisms compete for similar resources. |
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An organism that makes its own food.
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also known as an autotroph. |
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Comsumer
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organisms that eat other organisms in order to surivive. (also known as heterptophs)
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Primary: Feeds on the producer
Secondary: Feeds on the primary consumer.
Tertiary: feeds on the secondary comsumer. |
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| breakdown dead plants and animals. |
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chemosynthesis is the biological conversion of
one or more carbon molecules and nutrients into inroganic matter using the oxidation of inorganic molecules as a source of energy, rather than sunlight.
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used by bacteria to make food in the absence of sunlight.
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| is an organisms role or job within its community or ecosystem. |
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| the position an organism occupies on the food chain. |
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| are the world's largest habitats. |
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| the change of an ecosystem overtime. |
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| the flow of carbon through different parts of the Earth's system. (land, ocean and the atmosphere) |
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fuels formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms.
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three major forms include...
coal
natural gas
oil |
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