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Ecology |
the study of the relationship of plants and animals to each other and to their physical surroundings |
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Community |
All the populations living together in a given area |
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Food chain |
a group of animals that is dependent on each other as food. (A diagram of the flow of energy from one organism to another) |
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Commensalism |
a relationship in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected (vines growing up a tree) |
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Ecological succession |
the observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time |
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Plankton |
Plants and animals that move with the ocean currents |
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Conservation |
the action of conserving something |
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Climax community |
A point where an ecological community has reached equilibrium (non-Changing) |
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Eutrophication |
enrichment of an ecosystem with chemical nutrients |
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Biome |
Many connected ecosystems that share a similar climate |
