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| All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
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| Different populations in a certain area. |
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| A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time. |
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| A series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another. |
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| A place that provides all things an organism needs to live. These things include food, water, and shelter. |
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| A diagram that combines many food chains and shows all of the relationships for an entire ecosystem. |
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| An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. |
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| Plants and some other organisms that make their own food for energy. |
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| Organisms that can't make their own food, but get their energy from producers or other consumers. |
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| Organisms that get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms. |
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| An animal that hunts and eats other animals for energy. |
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| An animal that is hunted by another animal for food. |
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| A long-term relationship between two different organisms. |
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| A relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits from the other by causing harm to it. |
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| A relationship between two organisms that are interdependent, meaning each receives benefits from the other. |
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| A relationship between two organisms when one receives benefits from the other without hurting or harming it. |
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| Animals that eat dead organisms. |
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| Large ecosystems with the same climate and organisms. |
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| The process by which plants and other organisms convert light energy into chemical energy. |
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| A role in an ecosystem which includes what type of food the organisms takes in, how it gets its food, and which of the other species use the organisms as food. |
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| Consumers that eat both animals and plants. |
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| Consumers that only eat other animals. |
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| Consumers that only eat plants. |
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| A type of ecosystem that can be found in a body of water. |
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| A type of ecosystem that can be found on land. |
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