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Chapter 2
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Environmental Studies
11th Grade
09/24/2015

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Abiotic Factor
Definition
The nonliving factors in an organisms enviroment
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Biome
Definition
Is a large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities
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Biosphere
Definition
The portion of earth that supports life
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Biotic Factor
Definition
The living factors in an organisms enviroment
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Commensalism
Definition
is a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed
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Apothona lacertosa
Definition
leafy spurge bug that kills plant
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Definition
bug that kills the plant
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Ecosystem
Definition
a Biological community and all the abiotic factors that effect it
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community
Definition
a group of interacting populations that occupy the geographic area at the same time
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Population
Definition
individual organisms of single species that share the same geographic location at the same time
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Habitat
Definition
an area where an organism lives
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Niche
Definition
is the role or position that an organism has in its enviroment
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Symbiosis
Definition
the close relationship that exist when two or more species live together
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Mutualism
Definition
the relationship between two or more organisms that live closely together and benifit from eachother
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Commensalism
Definition
is a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed
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Parasitism
Definition
a symbolic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organisms
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Omnivore
Definition
organisms that eat both plants and animals
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Detrivore
Definition
organisms that eat fragments of dead matter in an ecosystem
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Trophic level
Definition
each step in a food chain or food web
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Food chain
Definition
a simple model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem
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Food web
Definition
is a model representing
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