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Abiotic factors
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Non living facotrs such as sunlight, moisture, and temperature that effect the Ecosystem.
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Are they living?
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Biotic factors
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Living organisims in a community.
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Are they living?
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Carnivore
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A consumer that eats the flesh of other animals
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What does this consumer eat
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Decomposer
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Organisims that feed on dead organisims and the wastes of living organisms.
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are they dead?
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Habitat
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The part of the ecosytem that an orginsim lives in.
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Herbivore
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A consumer that eats only plants
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does it eat meat or plants
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Niche
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A way so that the population is satisfied with it home, food and protection.
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Omnivore
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Animals that eat plants and animals.
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what does it eat?
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Predator
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Consumers that kill their prey
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Producer
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Food-Producing organisims
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Prey
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caught and eaten by a predator
i.e. A cat eats a mouse |
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Scavenger
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Animal that consumes dead animals but usually does kill them
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Community
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Differnt populations of things living together
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Population
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Things of the same kind living together
i.e. china |
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Symbosis
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partenship between organisims
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symbols
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Mutualisim
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Both partners benefit
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parasitsm
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one partner benefits and other is harmed
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commensalim
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One partner helped and other is neither helped nor harmmed.
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limiting factor
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Enviormental conditions that mak the population not increase
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Carrying capacity
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The largest popualtion that an enviorment can support
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