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Nature of Ecology
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Biology
10th Grade
10/16/2006

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What is ecology?
Definition
The scientific study interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment.
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What is biotic?
Definition
Biotic is of or relating to life.
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What is adaptation?
Definition
Adaptation is the inheritied characteristics that increases an organisms chance of survival.
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What is abiotic?
Definition
Abiotic is the physical or nonliving.
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Biosphere
Definition
the part of the earth where life exists
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Biomes
Definition
ecosystems with the same climate
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ecosystem
Definition
the community and the environment
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predator
Definition
An animal that hunts other animals for energy
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scavenger
Definition
An animal that feeds on the body of another animal
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Food chain
Definition
The diagram the represents how energy and food molucules flows from one organism to the next.
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Niche
Definition
An organism's way of life within an ecosystem
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Food web
Definition
diagram the represents the many energy pathways in a real ecosystem
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Mutualism
Definition
A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
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Symbiosis
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Limited or full exchange of benefits between species
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