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| Biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem |
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| Physical, or non-living, factors that shape ecosystems |
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| An area where sn organism lives |
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| The full range of physical and bilogical conditions in which an organism lives and in which the organism uses those conditions |
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| Any necessity of life, such as H2O, nutrients, light, food, or space |
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| COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE |
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| States that no TWO species can occupy the same NICHE in the same habitat at the same time |
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| An interaction in which one organism and feeds on another organism |
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| Any relationship in which two species live closely together |
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| BOTH species BENEFIT from the relationship |
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| ONE member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed |
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| ONE organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it |
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