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| Scientific study of all the interrelationships between organisms and their environment |
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| Relatively thin layer of Earth and its atmosphere that supports life |
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| Any living factor in an organism's environment |
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| Any nonliving factor in an organism's environment, such as soil, water temperature, and light availability |
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| Group of organismsthat share the same species that occupy the same geographic place at the same time |
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| All the interacting populations of different species that live in the same geographic location at the same time |
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| The biological community and all of the abiotic factors that affect it |
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| Large groups of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities |
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| An Area where an organism lives |
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| The role or position that an organism has in its environment |
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| The act of one orgganism comsuming another organism for food |
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| The close relationship that exists when two mor spicies live together |
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| The relationship between two or more Organisms that live closely togeter |
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| Is a relationshipin which oneorganism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed |
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| Can be external such as ticks, flea or internal such as bacteria |
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| An organism that collect energy from sunlight on inorganic substance to produce food |
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| An organism that get it engery requirements by consuming other organisms. |
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| A heterotroph that preys on other Heterotroph( meat eater) |
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| eat both plant and animals |
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| Eats fragments of dead matter in an ecosystem returnrients to the soil, air and water |
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| Anything that takes up spaceand has mass provides the nutrients needed for organism to function. |
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| A chemical substance that an organism must obtain from its environment to sustainlife and to undergo life processes |
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| The exchange of matter through the biosphere the cycles invole living organisms geological process and chemical process |
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| The processes of capture and con version of nitrogen into a form that is usable |
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| where some soil bacteria convert fixed nitrogen compounds back in to nitrogen gas |
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