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20 Cards in this Set
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abiotic
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Non Living
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Adaptation
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a geneticly determined charicteristic that allows an organism to survive in it's niche.
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Behavioral ecology
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The scientific study of the actions of oraganisims while relating to their environment
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Biosphere
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The layer around the Earth that contains living things
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Biotic factor
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living thing to concider when looking at the earth.
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Community
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A collective of interacting populations of organisms.
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Compatition
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an interaction that is mutuay detramental to both participants. Occures when two individuals are competing over limited resources
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Ecosphere
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thw whole earth's ecosystem
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Ecosystem
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the environmental parts that fit together and function as a unit.
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Ernest Hackel
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the father of ecology
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Predidation
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na interaction where on organism benifits and pery is eaten.
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Evoloution
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A change in gene frequencies over time through natural selection producing cumulitive changes in the charicteristics in a population.
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Genitic experament
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A term sugggesting that each individual is a compalation of a different set of genes being tested by the world for fitness.
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Habitat
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Physicaly where a organism lives
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Individual
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One organism.
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Mutualism
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A interaction in which both organisims benifit.
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Niche
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The condidtions in which an organism can survive.
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Parisitism
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an interaction where on organism benifita and the other is harmed.
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Population
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A group of interacting organisms of the same species.
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Role
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The part an organisim plays within it's interactions with other organisims.
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