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15 Cards in this Set
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mutualism
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symbiotic relationship beneficial to both species.
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habitat
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collect of niches in which an organism lives its life.
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food web
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shows all the possible feeding relationsshios in a community at each trophic level.
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ecosystem
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populations in a community and abiotic factors with which they intercet.
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ecology
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scientific study or interactions between organisms their environment.
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biotic factor
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all the living organisms inhabotong any of farth's many diff. environment.
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bioshere
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life-supporting portions of earth composed of air, land, fresh water, and slt water.
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abiotic factor
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non living parts of the environment such as air currents, temperatual, aoil, light, and moisture.
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niche
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role of a particular species in a community regarding food, space, reproduction, and how it interacts with abiotic factors.
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commensalism
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symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither hamed nor help.
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scavenger
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animal such as a velture that plays a positive role in the ecosystem and consuming dead organism and their refse.
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community
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several interacting populations that inhabir a common envirinment.
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autotroph
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organisms that are able to synthe size food using sun energy or energy stored in chemical comcalled producers.
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heterotroph
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organisms unable to make their own food, they rely on autorophs as their nutrient and enery source.
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population
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interbreeding individuals of an species that compete with one another fpr food, water, mates and live in the same place at the same time.
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