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19 Cards in this Set
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Ecosystem
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A community and it's physical environment
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Starts with an e
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Herbivore
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Plant eater
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Hooves
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Carnivore
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Eats meat
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Lion is an example
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Omnivore
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Eats plants and animals
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Raccoon is an example
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Niche
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An organisms role in its community
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Defined by what it eats, what eats it and it's interactions
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Habitat
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Where an organism lives
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Predator prey relationship
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One organism benefits, involves at least 2 organisms, one eats the other
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Predation?
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Competition
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Nobody benefits, vie for resources
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Like a fight
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Symbiosis
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Where organisms live in direct physical contact with one another. Both benefit
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S is for smile
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Lichen
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Algae+fungi; symbiotic relationship
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Weird word for a relationship between 2 weird words
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Parasitism
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One organism lives off another using it as a food source
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Fleas, Mosquitos
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Scavengers
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Organisms that eat the flesh of other dead organisms; don't kill themselves
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Vultures
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Energy pyramid
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Producers are the base and carnivores form the top level. Each level has 1/10 the energy of the one below it
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Biocides
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Herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, germicide
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Killers
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Extinct
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Gone forever
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Dinosaurs
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Species
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Group of similar organisms that can reproduce successfully with others of the same type
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Direct relationship
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2 organisms are touching/interacting with physical contact
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Mowing the lawn
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Indirect relationship
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Affecting another organism nondirectly
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Eat soup-throw can away-goes to dump-fills w/water-mosquito lays eggs-bites human
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Biodiversity
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The number of different types of organisms that live on the earth
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