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| nonliving parts of the environment |
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| an organism that produces its own food; the source of energy for all other living things on earth |
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| the variety of species in an area |
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| all of Earth's ecosystems, collectively; the biologically inhabited portions of Earth, including all the water, land, and air in which organisms survive. |
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| the living parts of the environment |
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| an organism that survives by eating animals |
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| the largest population of any single species that an area can support |
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| a combination of all the different populations that live and interact in the same environment. |
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| the struggle between organisms for the same limited resources in a particular area |
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| an organism that obtains its energy from producers |
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| an organism, generally a bacterium or fungus, that consumes dead organisms and organic waste |
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| the specific role played by an organism or a population of organisms in the ecosystem |
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| the process by which an existing community is replaced by another community |
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| the study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment |
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| all the living and nonliving things that exist in a specific area; a subdivision of the environment |
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| a diagram showing how food energy moves through the ecosystem |
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| every living and nonliving thing that surrounds an organism |
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| limited; able to be used up; opposite of infinite |
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| a representation that identifies the specific feeding relationships among organisms |
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| the place where an animal or plant lives |
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| an organism that eats only plants |
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| organism that cannot make its own food; a consumer |
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| the organism in a parasitic relationship that provides a home / or food for the parasite |
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| any factor in an environment that limits the size of a population |
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| an organism that survives by living and feeding on other organisms |
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| all the individuals of a single species that live in a specific area |
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| an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food |
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| an animal that is hunted and killed by predators |
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| an organism that makes its own food from light energy and inorganic materials |
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| a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
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| forest destruction that results from human activity |
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| forest destruction that results from human activity |
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| the destruction of an organism, or the removal of an organism from its habitat |
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| the movement of energy through an ecosystem |
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| a fuel, such as coal or gas, that comes from the remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago |
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| an increase of earths average surface temperature caused by an increase in greenhouse gases |
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| the process of converting an economy into one of which large-scale manufacturing is the primary economic base |
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| any resource, such as fossil fuels and minerals, that cannot be replaced |
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| an energy source that results that results from splitting atoms |
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| the layer of ozone gas in the upper atmosphere that protects Earth from some of the sun's radiation |
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| a harmful change in the chemical makeup of the soil, water, or air |
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| Earth's resources, such as our food supply and solar energy, which, given time, can be replaced |
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| all of the practical scientific knowledge that has been used to meet human needs |
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| an exchange or agreement made to reach a compromise |
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| the process by which water continuously moves from Earths surface to the atmosphere and back |
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