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29 Cards in this Set
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Abiotic
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Anything that is non-living
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Autotroph
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An organism that makes it's own food
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Biodiversity
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The differences in living things in an ecosystem
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Biotic
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Anything that is living
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Carnivore
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Organisms that eat meat
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Community
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All the organism living in a certain area
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Competition
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When two or more organisms are going after the same resources
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Consumer
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An organism that has to get its own food
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Decomposer
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Feed on dead organisms
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Ecology
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The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment
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Ecosystem
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All the living and non-living parts of an environment
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Energy Pyramid
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Way of showing how energy moves through a food chain
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Food Chain
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Way of showing the food relationships among a group or organisms
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Food Web
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Way of showing how food chains are related
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Habitat
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The place where an organism lives
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Herbivore
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An organism that eats plants
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Heterotroph
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An organism that has to get its own food (consumer)
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Host
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An organism that a parasite will attach itself too and feed off of
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Limiting Factors
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Things that can reduce an organism's population
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Mutualism
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A relationship between two organism where they both benefit from each other
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Niche
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An organism's job or role in the environment
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Omnivore
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An organism that eats both meat and plants
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Parasite
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Something that feeds off another organism
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Population
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All the organisms of the same species in the same area
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Predator
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An organism that stalks and kills its prey
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Prey
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An organism that hunted by the predator
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Producer
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An organism that produces (makes) its own food
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Scavenger
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An organism that feeds on dead organisms
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biosphere
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all of the ecosystems on earth
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