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Ecology
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Studies the relationship between living things and their environment.
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Producer
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Makes their own food
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Food Chain
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Shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem
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Community
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All the people or things in a town
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Energy pyramid
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Diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each food level.
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Food Web
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Is made up of many individual food chains.
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Decomposer
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Organisms that feed on dead organisms.
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Abiotic factors
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Nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
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Predator
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Animals that eat other animals.
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Ecosystem
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All living and nonliving parts of an environment.
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Consumer
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Gets energy by eating other organisms.
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Ecological succession
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Process by which populations in an ecosystem are gradually replaced by new populations.
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Niche
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Job or role in a community
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Habitat
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Place where an organism lives.
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Climax community
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Balanced community that is the end product of ecological succession.
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Commensalism
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One organism benefits from the relationship while the other is not affected.
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Parasitism
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Organism that lives on or in another living organism.
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Mutualism
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Both organisms benefit
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Symbiotic relationship
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Two different organisms and both benefit.
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Water cycle
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Water that falls to the land and some is used to make food for plants. The water is then passed to the animal and released into the air.
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Host
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Organism in which a parasite lives.
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Biome
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Large region of the earth that has characteristic kinds of organisms.
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Population
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All the organisms of the same species in an area
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Carnivore
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Eats other animals
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Herbivore
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Consumers that eat only producers.
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Omnivore
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Eat plants and animals
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Photosynthesis
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Process by which light energy is used to make food.
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Carbon cycle
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Kept in balance by the process of photosynthesis and respiration.
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