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species
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a group of individuals that belong to so similar to one another that they can produce off spring
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popilations
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a group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
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community
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assemblages of different popilations that live together in a defined area
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ecosystem
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a collection of all organisms that live in a particular place, together with their enviornment
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biome
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a group of ecosystems that have the same climate and domainant communities
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biotic
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living factors in an enviornment
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abiotic
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non living factors in an enviornment
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producer
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organism that can capture energy from sunlight or cemicals and use it to produce food from inorganic componds; autotroph
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consumer
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organism that relies on other organisms for its energy and food suply; heterotroph
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decomposer
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organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter
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biomagnification
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the accumulation of a harmful substance (cup lab)
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niche
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the full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses thoes conditions
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competition
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occures when organisms of the same or different species attempt to us an ecogical resource in the sane place at the same time
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ecological succession
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the series of predictable changes that ocurs in a comunity over time
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tropical rain forest
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hot and wet all year
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desert
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low parcipitation and temperature varies
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marine
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varies
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tundra
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strong winds, low precipitation, short summers, long cold winters, perminantly frozen ground.
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taiga
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short summers, long and cold winters
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temperate deciduous forest
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cold winters, warm summers, parcipitation all year
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grasslands
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warm to hot summers, cold winters, seasonal precipition
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latitude and biome
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lower the lat the higher the temp
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mutualism
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both species benefit from the relationship
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commensalism
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one members of the association benifits and the other had no effect
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paasitism
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one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it
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predation
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interaction in which one organism captures and deeds on another organism
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decomposer
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organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter
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