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Ecology Part 2
symboisis relationships etc
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Biology
10th Grade
11/06/2011

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Host
Definition
the member of parastic relationship that provides the food or habitat;the organism harmed in the parastic relationship
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Habitat
Definition
the place where an organism lives
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Climax Community
Definition
a relatively diverse and stable ecosystem that is the end result of sucession.
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Niche
Definition
the specific role played by an organism in its ecosystem; an organism's job.
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Competition
Definition
the struggle between organisms for the same limited resources in a particular area.
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Pioneer Speices
Definition
the first organism to become established in a new habitat.
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Ecological Sucession
Definition
the process by which an existing community is replaced by another community.
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Commensalism
Definition
Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefit and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed
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Mutalism
Definition
symbiotic realtionship in which both organisms benefit.
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Parasitism
Definition
Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism.
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Biodiversity
Definition
number of different species living in a specific area.
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Carrying Capacity
Definition
the largest population of any single species that an area can support.
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Biome
Definition
large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities
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Parasite
Definition
an organism that survives by living and feeding an other organisms.
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