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17 Cards in this Set
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Environment |
Everything that affects an organism |
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Ecology |
The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment. |
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Population |
a group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same area. |
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Community |
All of the populations of different species that live in the same area. |
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Ecosystem |
A community of organisms and its non-living environment. |
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Biosphere |
all the ecosystems on Earth: the part of Earth where life exists.
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Producer |
An organism that uses sunlight directly to make food. |
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Consumer |
An organism that eats other organisms. |
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Scavengers |
An animal that feeds o the dead bodies of other animals. |
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Decomposer |
An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms. |
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Classification |
The arrangement of things into orderly groups based on their similarities. |
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Taxonomy |
The science of identifying, classifying, and naming living things. |
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Kingdom |
The most general of the seven levels of classification |
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Genus |
The level of classification above species |
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Species |
The most specific of the seven levels. |
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Eubacteria |
The kingdom containing all modern bacteria except archaebacteria.
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Animalia |
The kingdom containing complex, multicellular organisms. |
