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| The study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment |
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| All the living and non -living things that interact in a specific area; a subdivision of the environment |
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| The living parts of the environment |
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| Nonliving parts of the environment |
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| The place where a plant or animal lives |
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All the individuals of a single species
that live in a specific area |
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A combination of all the different
populations that live and interact in the same environment |
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All of Earth’s ecosystems, collectively;the biologically
inhabited portions of Earth, including all of the water, land,and air in which organisms survive |
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The struggle between organisms for the
same limited resources in a particular
area |
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Any factor in the environment that
limits the size of a population |
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An animal that hunts and kills other
animals for food |
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An animal that is hunted and killed by
predators |
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The largest population of any single
species that an area can support |
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The specific role played by an
organism or a population of organisms
in the ecosystem |
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A representation that identifies the
specific relationships among organisms |
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An organism that produces its own
food; the source of energy for all other living things on Earth |
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An organism that makes its own food
from light energy and inorganic
materials |
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An organism that cannot make its own
food; a consumer |
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| An organism that eats only plants |
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An organism that survives by eating
animals |
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An organism, generally a bacteria or
fungus, that consumes dead organisms
and organic waste |
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A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of
dead organisms |
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An organisms that survives by living
and feeding on other organisms |
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| The organism in a parasitic relationship that provides the home and/or food for the parasite |
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A representation of
many interconnected food chains that shows
the feeding relationships
among producers, consumers, and decomposers |
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A diagram showing how food energy
moves through the ecosystem |
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| The variety of species in an area |
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The process by which an existing
community is replaced by another
community |
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Earth’s resources, such as our food
supply and solar energy, which, given
time, can be replaced |
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Any resources, such as fossil fuels and
minerals, that cannot be replaced |
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The destruction of an organism, or the
removal of an organism from its habitat |
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The process of converting an economy
into one in which large scale manufacturing is the primary economic base |
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| A fuel, such as coal and gas, that comes from the remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago |
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An increase in Earth’s average surf
ace temperature caused by an increase in greenhouse gases |
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The layer of ozone gas in the upper
atmosphere that protects Earth from
some of the sun’s radiation |
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An exchange or agreement made to
reach |
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[image]
What is this process? |
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[image]
What is represented by the line labeled B? |
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| The Carrying Capacity of the environment. |
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