ecology

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relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.

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Biotic

Question 2

besmirches the nonliving part of the environment, including water,rocks,light, and temperature.

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Abiotic

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a particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.

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Population

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an interacting group of various species in a common location.

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Community

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a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

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Ecosystem

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the part of earth where life exists

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Biosphere

Question 7

an organism that eats only plants

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Herbivore

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an organsim that eats animals.

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Carnivore

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an organism that eats both plants and animals.

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Omnivore

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the pathway of energy transfers thought various stages as a result of the feeding patters of a series of organsims.

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Food chain

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a digram that shows the feeding relationships between organsims in an ecosyteam.

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Food web

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a triangular diagram that shows and ecosysteam’s loss of energy which results as energy passes thought the ecosystem’s food chain

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Energy pyramid

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the largest population that an environment can support at any given time.

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Carrying capacity

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an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism

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Prey

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an animal that naturally preys on others.

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Predator

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symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.

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Mutualism

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: commensalism

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Commensalism

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the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism.

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Parasitism

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an organism that produces organic compounds from simple substances such as water and carbon dioxide; an autotroph

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Producers

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an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.

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Decomposers

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a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Desert

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treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy, and rainfall is scant.

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Tundra

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a biome that is always changing.

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Temperate deciduous forest

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very high annual rainfall, high average temperatures, nutrient-poor soil, and high levels of biodiversity (species richness).

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Tropical rainforest

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contains evergreen trees that bear cones.

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Coniferous forest

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a tropical grassland with warm temperatures year-round and with its highest seasonal rainfall in the summer.

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Savanna

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grasses as the dominant vegetation.

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Temperate grassland