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Ecology
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The study of the interction of living things with the abiotic factors in their environment
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Ecosystem
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The set of relationships between populations of species and between those populations and the abiotic factors in their environment
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Abiotic Factors
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Nonliving factors in ecosystem
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Biotic Factors
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living factors in ecosystem
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Producers
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make own food
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Consumers
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eats other consumers and producers to survive
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herbivores
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eats plants
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omnivores
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eats plants and animals
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carnivores
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eats only meat
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detritivores
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An animal that eats the waste from other plants/animals (including their dead remains)
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trophic level
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A way of categorizing living things according to how they gain their energy
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habitat
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conditions required in order for the survival of a species
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niche
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the place or role of a species within an ecosystem
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pest species
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an organism that humans consider harmful
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parasite
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an organism that lives off of a host.
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carrying capacity
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the maximum population a species that can be supported indefinitely by an ecosystem
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bioamplification
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a process that results in increasing concentrations of a toxin in the bodies of consumers at each succeeding trophic level.
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