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The dependent variable is the what?

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Responding variable

2
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Abiotic factors

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Nonliving parts of the environment

3
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Biotic factors

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all of the living factors that directly or indirectly affect the ecosystem such as producers and consumers

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What must there be for a stable ecosystem

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Constant supply of energy, living organisms that can incorporate the energy into organic compounds, recycling of materials between organisms and the environment

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Producers

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Any plant that manufactures food that photosynthesis

6
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Niche

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An organisms role in an ecosystem usually eating role

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Consumers

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Eat producers, all animals are consumers

8
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Decomposers

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Break down dead organisms and make their materials available to other living things

9
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What is an organisms habitat determined by

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Abiotic and biotic factors

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Mutualism

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Both organisms benefit from the relationship

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Parasitism

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One organism benefits and the other is harmed

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Commensalism

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One organism benefits and there is no effect on the other

13
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Biosphere

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The regions of the surface occupied by living organisms

14
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Biome

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A biome is a specific environment that’s home to living things suited for that place and climate. A desert biome is great for a lizard, but a koala needs the leafy greens of a forest biome.

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Logistic growth

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When the growth rate decreases or planes out when the population reaches carrying capacity

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Producers

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Animals that make their own food such as plants

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Consumer

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Organisms which receive energy by consuming other organisms

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Symbiosis

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Interaction between two different species like mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism