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| a community of organisms and its abiotic environment |
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| the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment |
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| all the populations of different species that live and interact in an area |
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| a group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same area at the same time. |
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| the part of the environment that includes all living things that interact together. |
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| the part of the environmnet that includes all the non-living, or physical factors such as water, light, soil and temperature. |
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| an organism that uses sunlight directly to make food. |
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| an organism that eats producers or other organisms to obtain engergy. |
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| an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms. |
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| sunlight is the original source of energy for all living things. |
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| the process used by producers, of converting sunlight into food |
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| a consumer that eats producers or other organisms, for energy |
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| a consumer that eats animals |
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| a consumer that eats a variety of organisms |
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| a consumer that feeds on the bodies of dead animals |
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| a diagram that represents how energy in food molecules flows form one organism to the next |
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| a diagram that represents the many food chains, or pathways in a real ecosystem |
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| a diagram, shaped like a tringle that shows the loss of energy at each level |
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| the environment in which an organism lives |
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| an organisms way of life within the ecosystem |
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| a needed resource that is in limited supply |
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| the largest population that a given environment can support over a long period of time |
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| when two or more individuals or populations try to use the same limited resources |
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| the organism that eats the prey |
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| the organism that is being eaten |
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| a close longterm association between two or more species |
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| a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit |
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| a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected |
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| a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is harmed |
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| an organism that feeds on another living creature, usually without killing it |
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| the organism that is being harmed by the parasite |
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| one in a species- a single living thing |
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| an organism which doesn't belong in a certain ecosystem |
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| all the ecosystems, including the atmosphere and deep in the ocean |
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| organisms need each other |
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| too many organisms and not enough resources |
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a relationship in a food web where there is not an effect on the next organism in a food chain or web, but there is on the one after that for example if the mosquitoes were all toxic it would have a direct effect of the frogs that eat them but an indirect effect on the birds that eat the frogs that ate the mosquitoes
mosquitoes>frogs>birds |
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a relationship in a food web where there is an effect on the next organism in a food chain or web for example if the mosquitoes were all toxic it would have a direct effect on the frogs that eat them
mosquitoes>frogs |
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