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| The study of living things and the interactions with one another. |
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non-living things or factors
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stones, temperature, etc. |
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Living things or factors.
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humans, animals, plants, etc. |
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An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
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Plants, Protist, algae. |
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Organisms that eat other organisms in order to survive.
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humans, animals. |
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An organism that feed only on flesh and meat.
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lions, tigers, crocodiles, cheetahs, wovles.
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An organism that feeds only on plants and fruits.
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goats, cows, horses, zebra. |
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An organmism that feed on both flesh and plants.
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Humans, pigs, bears, etc. |
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| Is a relationship in which both organisms benefit. |
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| Is a relationship in which one organism benefits, and the other is neither hurt nor harmed. |
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| A biological interaction in which a predator feeds on its prey. |
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| is a biological interaction in which one organism lives in or on another organism (the Host). Overtime harms the host while it benefits |
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| a relationship in which two species compete for the same resources. |
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An organism that makes its own food.
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also known as an autotroph. |
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Comsumer
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organisms that eat other organisms in order to surivive. (also known as heterptophs)
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Primary: Feeds on the producer
Secondary: Feeds on the primary consumer.
Tertiary: feeds on the secondary comsumer. |
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Decomposers
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DECOMPOSERS.
feed on dead /decaying organism
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DETRITIVORES.
breaksdown dead/decaying organisms to use again
(fungi, bacteria)
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used to make food in the absence of sunlight
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used by bacteria deep beneath the ocean floor. |
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| is an organisms role or job within its community or ecosystem. |
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| Represent each step or role an organism, plays in a food web or chain. |
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| A certain climate or terrain where certain organisms can live. |
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The series of predictable changes by which one ecosystem changes into another.
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primary succession: succession that occurs on the surface where no soil and biotic factors exist. contains pioneers species (1st species to populate an area, such as soil makers, mosses)
(volcanoes, glaciers)
Secondary Succession: changes that occur in a previously established with soil and biotic factors. |
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| The flow of carbon through different parts of the Earth's system. (land, ocean and the atmosphere) |
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fuels formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms.
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three major forms include...
coal
natural gas
oil |
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| convertion of nitrate into nitrogen gas. |
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| Is a stable group of plants and animals in a ecosystem |
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| flow of nitrogen through different parts of the earth. |
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| is the movement of water between the ocean, atmosphere and land. |
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| the conversion of nitrogen gas to ammonia. |
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| occurs when water changes from liquid to gas. |
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| occurs when water enters the atmosphere by evaporating from leaves of plants |
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| amount of variation of species within an ecosystem. |
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A single chain of organisms transferring energy by eating or being eaten by other organisms in an ecosystem.
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Sun→Grass→Rabbit→Fox |
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Multiple food chains that show all possible feeding relationships in an ecosystem
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every organism depends on every organism for survival. |
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