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| everything that surrounds an organism and acts upon it |
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| study of the relationship between living things and their environments |
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| process of organisms acting upon one another or on the nonliving parts of their environment |
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| group of the same kind of organisms living in a certain place |
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| all the populations that live in a certain place and can interact with one another |
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| group of communities interacting with each other and the nonliving parts of the environment |
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| place where an organism lives |
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| role, or job, in its habitat |
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| condition in the environment that puts limits on the size a population can grow to |
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| largest population size that can be supported by the available resource of an area |
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| area where a type of animal or plant population is found |
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| average weather of an area over a long period of time |
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| large region with a characteristic climate and plant and animal communities |
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| gradual change in population of organisms that occurs when the environment changes |
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| last community in a succession |
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| material found in nature that is used by living things |
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| natural resource that can be reused or replaced |
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| natural resource that cannot be reused or replaced |
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| wise use of natural resources |
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