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Populations and Communities

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Natural Selection   a characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment.  
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adaptations   the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environment.  
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Nichie   A niche includes the type of food the organism eats, how it obtains this food,and wich other organiama use the organisms as food  
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Competition   the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource  
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predation   An interaction in wich one organism kills another for its food  
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Predater   the orginsm that does the killing  
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Prey   the organism that gets killed  
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symbiosys   is a close relationship between two species that benifts at least one of the species  
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mutualism   a relationship in wich both species benifit  
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commensalism   a relationship in wich one species benfits and the other species is neither helped or harmed  
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parasitism   involves or organism living on or inside another and harming it  
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parasite   the organism that benifits  
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Host   the organism it lives on or in is called its host  
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orginism   a living thing  
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habitat   an enviroment the things an organism needs to live grow and reproduce  
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biotic factor   a living thing in a orginisms habitat  
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abiotic   a non living part of a organisms habitat  
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phtotsynthesis   the process in wich organisms along with sunlight and carbon dioxide use to make their own food  
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species   a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offsprings wich can mate and reproduce  
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population   the members of one species in a area  
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community   all the diffrent populations that live together  
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ecosystem   the community of one organisms that live in a area  
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ecology   the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment  
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estimate   is a approximate of a number  
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birthrate   is the births of a population in a certain amount of time  
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deathrate   is the number of deaths of a population that die in a certain amount of time  
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Immigration   is the movement of a population  
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emmigration   the leaving of a population  
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population density   the number of individuals in a area of a specific size  
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limiting factor   is a environ mental factor that causes a population the decrease  
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carrying capacity   the largest population that a area can hold  
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