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| parts of the non-living environment like temperature, sunlight, moisture, ect |
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| the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment |
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| parts of the living environment like food and other living things |
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| interactions within populations |
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| competition for food, water, mates, living spaces |
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| interactions within communities |
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| competition between different species and interacting populations |
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| interactions between all living things and the non-living abiotic factors in an environment. |
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| where an organism lives out its life |
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| the role that an organism plays in its habitat. |
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| when two different species live togethere in an environment |
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| asymbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected |
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| symbiotic relationship where both species benefit. |
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| symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed. |
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| another name for producers or organisms that use sunlight to make their own food. |
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| another name for consumers who use other organisms for food. |
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| heterotrophs who eat plants. |
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| heterotrophs who kill and eat other heterotrophs. |
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| heterotrophs who eat dead organisms. |
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| organisms that break down and absorb dead organisms for food |
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| a model that shows how energy and matter flows through an ecosystem. |
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| feeding levels in an energy or food pyramid. Energy in the form of heat is always lost as we move toward the top of the pyramid. |
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| a model that shows all trophic levels in an environment. |
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| how water moves throught the environment. It is driven by sunlight. |
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| How rocks move through the environment, driven by the energy inside the earth. |
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| How carbon moves through the environment |
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| how nitrogen moves through the environment. |
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