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15 Cards in this Set
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Ecosystems |
All of the organisms living in an area together with their physical environment |
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Biotic Factor |
Living and once living parts of an ecosystem (plants, animals, dead organisms)
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Abiotic Factor |
Non living parts of the ecosystem (air, water, light) |
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Organism |
Individual living things |
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Species |
Group of organisms that can mate to produce fertile offspring |
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Population |
All the members of the same species that are in the same place at the same time |
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Community |
Group of various species that live in the same place and interact with each other (biotic components only) |
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Habitat |
Place organisms live |
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Niche |
Unique role of species within an ecosystem (what they do) |
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Commensalism |
Relationship in which one organism benefits and the other gets nothing |
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Competition |
Relationship in which both organisms are harmed |
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Mutualism |
Relationship in which both organisms benefit |
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Parasitism |
Relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed |
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Predation |
Relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed/killed |
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Symbiosis |
Organisms that are so closely like that they become one |
