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Ecology
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6th Grade
05/26/2010

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Term
Habitat
Definition
Where an organism lives
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Niche
Definition
The role an organism plays in a place.
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Symbiotic Relashionships
Definition
A symbiotic relationship is a relationship between two entities which is mutually beneficial for the participants of the relationship.
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Parasistism
Definition
A symbiotic relashionship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
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Host
Definition
A host is a large animal.
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Mutualism
Definition
When one animal is benefited, and the other is harmed.
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Commensalism
Definition
A symbiotic relashionship between two organism where one organism is helped and the other one is not benefited or harmed.
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Competition
Definition
When organisms go against each other.
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Predation
Definition
The capturing of prey as a means of maintaing life.
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Predator
Definition
Any animal that lives by preying on another animal.
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Prey
Definition
An organism hunted ot caught for food.
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Abiotic
Definition
Non-living factors.
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Biotic
Definition
Living Factors.
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Communitity
Definition
Different populations in an area.
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Population
Definition
A group of organisms of the same species that occupy the same geographic place at the same time.
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Adaptation
Definition
How an organism benefits in an enviroment.
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Ecology
Definition
The study of all interrelashionships between organisms and their enviroment.
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Carrying Capacity
Definition
The largest number of what something can hold.
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Limiting Factor
Definition
A biotic or abiotic factor that limits the number and its distributation of population.
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