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| An individual living thing |
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| A group of organisms that are able to reproduce together and that resemble others in appearance , behavior and internal structure |
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| Organisms of the same species living together in a particular plaace. |
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| Different populations of plants and animals living together in an area. |
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| The surroundings of an organism that affect its life and development. |
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| an organism infected by a parasite |
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| a relationship between two types of organisms in which one organism benefits while the other is not affected |
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| a relationship between two types of organisms in which both organisms benefit |
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| where a population lives in an ecosystem |
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| The combination of all living things in a community and its nonliving or physical environment. |
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| the function an organism plays in the habitat |
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| organisms that make their own food (green plants) |
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| The study of th relationship between organisms and their environments |
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| organisms that eat other organisms for food |
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| The number of organisms per unit of living space. |
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| consumers that eat only producers (plants) |
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| consumers that eat both plants and animals |
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| The nonliving parts of an ecosystem |
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| consumers that eat animals that are already dead |
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| The living part of an ecosystem |
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| the way energy is transferred through a community |
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| all of the feeding relationships in an ecosystem |
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| The number of individuals that could be produced under the best possible conditions. |
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| Factors that prevent a popultion from reaching its full potential |
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| a diagram showing the flow of energy through an ecosystem showing a loss of energy from one consumer level to the next |
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| When one organism kills and eats another. |
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| consumers that get food by breaking down dead organisms causing them to rot. |
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| An animal that hunts and eats oher animals. |
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| a gradual orderly change of a species in a community over time |
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| An animal eaten by a predator. |
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| succession occuring on land recently exposed by a melting glacier or on lava fields created by a volcano |
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| the first living things to develop in a previously lifeless area |
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| A relationship between to types of organisms in which one organism benefits while the other one is harmed. |
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| the final stage of succession |
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| the gradual return of a disturbed area to its former communities (ex. after a fire) |
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| An organism that lives in or on another organism and is harmful to that organism (the harmed organism is called the host) |
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| consumers that eat other animals |
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