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| The interaction between abiotic and biotic factor. |
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| Non-living physical and chemical factors which affect the ability of organisms to survive and reproduce. |
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| Living things or their materials that directly or indirectly affect an organism in its environment. |
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| To find how basic or acidic a substance is. |
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| Interaction between two organisms in which the parasite benefits and the host is harmed. |
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| An organism that depends on a host and feeds off of it |
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| Something that carries a parasite. |
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| An interrupt, cessation or disorder of a body, system, or organ structure or function. |
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An interaction where the host and the parasite benefit from es
each other. |
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| When two or more parties strive for a common goal that cannot be shared. |
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| A biological interaction where a predator feeds on its prey. |
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| An organism that is hunting. |
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| The organism that is attacked. |
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| A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment. |
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| A set of interacting or interdependent entities forming an integrated whole. |
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Carbon Dioxide + Water produces oxygen gas + Glucose.
opposite of repiration |
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| An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy. |
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| An organism which is not capable of manufacturing food by inorganic sources, hence, must consume organic susbstrates, like plants or animals, for growth and development. |
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| An class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. |
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| A series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest one being fed on by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc. |
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| An animal, such as a bird or insect, that feeds on dead or decaying matter. |
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| An organism, such as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from in organic substances. |
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| (in a food chain) an animal that feeds on plants; a herbivore. |
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| (in a food chain) a carnivore that feeds only upon herbivores. |
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| A carnivore at the top most level of a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that only feeds upon a secondary consumer. |
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| An animal that is a predator but has no predator of their own; are on top of the food chain. |
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| A gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body, especially the one surrounding the Earth, and retained by the celestial body's gravitational field. |
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| The part of the Earth were living things exist. |
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| The aqueous vapor of the atmosphere; broadly: the aqueous envelope of the earth including bodies of water and aqueous vapor in the atmosphere. |
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| The rigid outer layer of the Earth's surface; is composed of the continental crust, the oceanic crust, and the uppermost mantel, all floating on the semi-molten rock of the mantel |
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The portion of the earth about, 1800 miles thick, between the crust and the core. |
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| A measure of how much of the Sun's energy is reflected off an object back out to space compared to how much is trapped in the Earth's atmosphere. Snow, ice, clouds, other white stuff reflect it off. |
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| The process of transferring moisture from the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation of water and transpiration from plants. |
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| The quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time. |
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| Organisms that decompose and break down dead or decaying organisms and release it back to the soil. |
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A community of organisms where there are many interrelated food chains.
(Food Web) |
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90/10 rule
(Energy Pyramid) |
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The total weight of organisms at each level of a food chain.
(Biomass pyramid) |
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The relative numbers of organic material at each level.
(Numbers Pyramid) |
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When one organism on the food chain is unusually large.
(Inverted Pyramid) |
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