Ecology

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Ecologist

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A scientist who studies ecology and how they survive in their environment

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Niche

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The role or function of an organism in the environment ➡️an organisms purpose

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Ecosystem

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A limited area in which living and non living things interact

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Biotic factors

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Any living factors that affect another organism

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Abiotic factors

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Non living factors part of the environment that effects living organisms

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Tolerance

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The ability to withstand change

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Optimum range

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Environment best suited for organisms survival

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Limiting factor

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The condition that threatens the organisms survival

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Carrying capacity

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The point that limiting factors prevent further growth of population

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Biodiversity

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The number of life in the world/particular place

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Hydrologic cycles

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Water cycle

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Atmospheric cycles

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Recycled nutrients found in gases

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Sedimentary cycle

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Recycles nutrients in soil and rocks

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Biosphere

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Part of earth where plants live

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Atmosphere

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Gases surrounding a planet

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Biome

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A geographic area that contains a particular group of plants and animals

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Community

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Living organisms in an area

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Population

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One species

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Individual

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One organism

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Producer

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Organism that makes its own food

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Phototrophs

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Covert light to produce food

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Chemotrophs

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Can’t produce food

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Decomposer

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Feed on dead things and convert it to soil

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Detrivores

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Eat dead things and break it down for decomposers

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Food chain

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List starting with producers arranged in a order to what eats what

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Food web

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Shows feeding relationships in an ecosystem

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Symbiosis

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Relationship between two organisms

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Mutualism

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Symbiosis when both organisms benefit

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Commensalism

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When one organism benefits

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Parasitism

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When one gets the nutrients from the other

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Levels of ecology

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Biosphere,biome,ecosystem, community,population,organism

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Ecology

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The study of the relationships between organisms and their physical environment

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Lithosphere

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The rigid outer part of the earth