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| A community of of organisms and their physical environment. |
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| A group of species various that live in the same place and interact with one another. |
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| A place where an organism lives. |
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| A variety of different organisms in a given area. |
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| The replacement of one community by another in a place in a period of time. |
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| Average weather conditions in an area. |
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| A large region characterized by a specific kind of climate and certain types of plants and animals. |
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| The basic food source for an ecosystem. |
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| An organism that eats other organisms. |
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| Break down the remains of dead animals. |
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| Transfer of energy in an ecosystem. |
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| A diagram that shows the energy passing through the ecosystem. |
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| The continuous movement of carbon from a nonliving environment. |
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| The process of exchanging oxygen and co2 between organisms and their environment. |
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| The process in which nitrogen circulates around water, air, soil, and organisms in an ecosystem. |
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| The movement of Phosphorus in chemical forms. |
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| A group of organisms in the same species that live together in one place. |
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| The largest population an area can support at any given time. |
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| The act of one organism to kill another organism for food. |
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