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| An organism that cannot produce its own food |
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| Organisms that eat meat/other organisms/other animals |
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| organisms that produce their own food |
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| animals/organisms that eat both plants and other animals |
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| Any organism that feeds off decomposing organic material, especially bacterium or fungi. |
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| an organism that eats only plants |
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| The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community. |
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| The process by which plants and other photoautotrophs generate carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide, water, and light energy in chloroplasts. |
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| The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide. |
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| A pyramid shaped diagram in layers, where each layer represents a group of animals that feeds on the layer below. |
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| A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other. |
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| A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit. |
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| A collection of organisms of a particular species most often that of living in a given area |
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| A specific place or natural conditions in which an organism lives |
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| a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding |
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| A group of related natural objects or forces within a defined zone |
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| A symbiotic relationship between individuals of different species in which both individuals benefit from the association. |
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| a type of relationship between two species of a organism in which one lives with, on, or in another without damage to either |
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| a hot and sizzling treeless area |
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| a cold arctic desert that is less colder than the arctic |
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| a type of forest characterized by trees that seasonally shed their leaves |
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| usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall |
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