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| the part of Earth where life exists |
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| an organism that eats only plants |
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| an organism that eats only animals |
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| an organism that eats both plants and animals |
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| a diagram with arrows in a straight line showing energy flow from grass, to rabbit, to fox |
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| arrows pointing to producers and consumers in a web like diagram |
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| plants that get their energy from the sun |
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nonliving elements in an enviroment
ex. water, temperature, sunlight, rocks, soil, |
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living elements in the environment
ex. plants, animals, insects, bacteria, fungi |
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| One species disappears, then |
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| the other species in the ecosystem are thrown out of balance |
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several populations living together |
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natural resources such as; water, food, space, sunlight |
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a group of one organism living together
ex. only a group of maple trees
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only a group of alligators
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a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
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the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment
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several populations living in the same area |
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| an organism that eats prey |
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| a community of organisms and their nonliving environment |
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the organism that is hunted by a predator
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symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is
harme
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triangle-shaped diagram that shows the loss of energy at each level of a food
chain
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the number of organisms an ecosystem can support
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symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not
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