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| study of the interactions between organisms and their environments |
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| All of the living things in an ecosystem |
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| groups of different species |
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| communities and their environments |
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| all of the non-living things in an ecosystem |
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| liquid necessary for life |
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| oxygen (o2) % carbon dioxide (co2) |
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| temperature, humidity, air pressure, & wind |
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| communities living in a particular environment |
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| saltwater environment (oceans or seas) |
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| freshwater environment (ponds, lakes, or rivers) |
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| land environment (deserts, grasslands or forests) |
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| specific place an organism lives out its life |
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| role a species plays in its environment |
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| biotic or abiotic factors that limit the numbers of organisms that can inhabit an ecosystem (food, shelter, space, & mates) |
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| the struggle to survive in a habitat with limited resources |
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| traits (variations) that help organisms survive |
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| one organism hunts and kills another for food |
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| one organism lives and feeds off of another organism |
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| organism that lives off of another |
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| make their own food through the process of photosynthesis (autotrophs) all plants |
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| must eat an existing food source (heterotrophs) |
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| eat both plants and animals |
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| eat (already) dead organisms |
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| break down dead organisms |
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| one organism eats one other organism (producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, and quaternary consumer. |
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| one organism eats several other organisms, can be found at varying trophic levels depending on the food chain within the food web (primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer |
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| similar to a food chain but represents both numbers of consumers and the amount of energy available at each trophic level |
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