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| A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit |
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| A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither harmed nor benefited. |
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| A symbiotic relationship in which one organsim benefits at the expense of another, usually another species. |
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| Organisms that cannot make thier own food and must feed on other organisms for energy and nutrients. |
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| An organism which produces its own food through photosynthesis |
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| An animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances |
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| A community of plants, animals and microorganisms, along with their environment, that function together as a unit. An ecosystem can be as large as a rain forest or as small as a rotting log. |
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| 10% of the energy available at one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level. |
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| An organism that makes organic material from inorganic material; a primary producer; examples include plants, phytoplankton, and some bacteria |
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| An organism that feeds on other living organisms, for example animals and parasitic plants would be considered consumers. In a food chain, herbivores that eat green plants are primary consumers and carnivores that eat herbivores are secondary consumers. |
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| An animal that eats dead remains and waste of other animals and plants. |
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| A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter, or numbers of organisms within each trophic level in a food chain or food web |
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| The location and environmental conditions in which a particular organism (plant, animal fungus or bacterium) normally lives. |
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| Any animal that lives by preying on other animals, where a hunting organism feeds on its prey. |
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| An organism that eats plants |
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| Organisms such as fungi and bacteria that feed on dead material causing the chemical breakdown of the material |
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| A transfer of food energy from plants to one or more animals; a series of plants and animals linked by their food relationships |
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| The role or functional position of a species within the community of an ecosystem. |
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| An animal that is eaten by other animals. |
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| Any organism that eats other consumers (sometimes referred to as "meat eaters") |
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| The position that an organism occupies in a food chain -- what an organism eats, and what eats the organism. |
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| A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains |
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| Where organisms live together to their mutual benefit. |
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