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| the five major types of close interactions- predation, parasitism, competition, mutualism, and commensalism |
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| on individual captures, kills, and consumes another individual |
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| what the predator capture, kills, and consumes |
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| a harmless species resembles a poisonous or distasteful specie |
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| a specie that eats plants |
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| a species interaction that resembles predation in that one individual is harmed while the other benefits |
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| one individual feeds on the other individual known as the host |
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| external parasites such as fleas and ticks |
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| internal parasites such as disease-causing bacteria and tapeworms |
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| results from fundamental niche overlap |
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| situations in which one species is eliminated from a community because of competition for the same limited soure |
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| a cooperative relationship in which both species derive some benefit |
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| animals that carry pollen |
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| an interaction in which one species benefits and the other inst affected |
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| organisms that obtain their energy by making their own food |
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| organisms that must take in food to meet their energy needs |
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| autotrophs that capture energy and use it to make organic molecules |
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| organic material in an ecosystem |
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| heterotrophs that obtain energy by consuming organic molecules made by other organisms |
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| eat both producers and consumers |
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| cause decay by breaking down the complex molecules in dead tissues and wastes into simpler molecules |
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| indicates the organisms position in the sequence of energy transfers |
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| a single pathway of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem |
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| substances moving from the abiotic portion of the environment into living things |
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| movement of water between various reservoirs |
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| plants take in water through their roots and release water taking in carbon dioxide through stoma |
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| photosynthesis and cellular respiration |
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| process of converting nitrogen gas to nitrate |
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| converts nitrogen gas into amonia, then nitrite, then nitrate, and plants use it |
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| process where decomposers break down corpses and waste of an organism and release nitrogen |
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| bacteria in the soil take sup ammonia and oxidizes it into nitrites |
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