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| A symbiotic relationship is a relationship between two entities which is mutually beneficial for the participants of the relationship. |
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| an autotrophic organism (as a green plant) viewed as a source of biomass that can be consumed by other organisms |
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| an organism that requiring complex organic compounds for food which are gain from preying on other organisms, or by consuming organic matter. |
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| mutually beneficial association between different kinds of organisms |
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| A relationship between two organisms in which one gains benefits while harming the host in which it lives. |
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| The predictiable, sequential replacement of populations in an ecosystem |
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| is when an ecosystem is replacing it's self with no soil to start off with. |
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| when and ecosyteme has soil to start of with. |
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| is an organism that obtains in nutrution at the expence of another. |
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| when the primary source of life is when and organism obtains nutrition from another by killing it. |
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| a form of defence in which an animal resembles another that is dangerous or posioness. |
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| a consumer that eats other consumers |
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| a consumer that eats both other consumers and producers |
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| a consumer that eats producers |
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| a feeding level in an ecosystem |
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| an organism that obtains its nutrients by breaking do the matter of other organisms. |
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| all the biotic and abiotics of an enviorment. |
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| an organism that feeds on other organism |
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| a consumer that eats producers to obtain nutrients |
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| a consumer that eats other consumers to obtain nutrients. |
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| the dry weight of organic material in an ecosystem |
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| the evaporation of water through stomata |
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| the interconection of food chains in an ecosystem |
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| a pathway that begins with producers along with energy that is transfered among the tropich levels. |
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| the phyical area in which an organism lives |
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| the living factors of an ecosystem |
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| the non-living factors of an ecosystem |
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| the proccess by which material necessary for life are circulated through the enviorment. |
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| the movemnet of water between the ground, the atmosphere, and bodies of water |
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| the pathway nitrogen flows thought the ecosystem. |
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| the process by which carbon is cycled thought the biosphere |
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| when warm water cuts off the upwelling of nutrients in the pacific ocean |
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| the dying out of a species |
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| the number of organisms in a given area during a specific period of time |
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| What is the the role of a decomposer in a ecosytem |
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| the role of a decompsers is to break down the organic matter of dead orangisms, and release the nitrogen within the organism. |
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| Nitrogen makes up what percent of the atmosphere? |
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| through what proccess do plants release water into the atmosphere? |
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Organisms that manufacture organic nutrients for an ecosystem are called what |
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| energy level transfer what percent of energy to the next level? |
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