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Biotic

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All living organisms that inhabit and environment.

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Carrying Capacity

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Number of organisms of one species that an environment can support indefinitely; population carrying capacity tend to increase; those above tent to decrease.

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Competition

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A symbolic relationship between or among living things for resources such as food, space, shelter, mate, ecological status, etc.

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Exponential Growth

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Growth pattern where a population grows faster as it increases in size; graph of an exponentially growing population resembles a ā€œjā€ shape curve.

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Limiting Factor

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Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms .

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Logistic Growth

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A model that increase quickly at first then slowly as the quantity comes to a/the limit.

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Overpopulation

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A situation in which too many people or animals live in a central area.

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Population

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Group of organisms all of the same species, which interbreed and live in the same place at the same time.

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Scale

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Either a pan or a tray of a balance.

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Abiotic

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Non-living parts of an organisms environment; air currents, temperature, moisture lights, soil are examples.