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population and community

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organism   a living thing  
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habitat   an environment that provides the things organism needs to live,grow,and reproduce  
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biotic factor   a living part of an organism's environment  
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abiotic factor   a nonliving part of an organisms habitat  
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photosynthesis   The process in which organism use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their own food  
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species   a group of organism that are physically similar and mate with each other and produce offspring that can mate and reproduce  
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population   all the members of one species in a population in particular area  
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community   all the populations that live together in an area  
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ecosystem   the community of organism that live together in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings  
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ecology   the study of how living things interact with each other and their environments  
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estimate   is an approximation of a number , based on reasonable assumption  
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birth rate   of a population is the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time  
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death rate   is the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of times  
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immigriation   moving in to a population  
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emigration   leaving a population  
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population density   the number of individuals in an specific area of a specific size  
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limiting factors   an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease  
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carrying capacity   the largest population that an area can hold  
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natural selection   a characteristic that makes an individual better suited to is's environment may eventually become common in that species throughout a process  
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adaptions   the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments  
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niche   the goal of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living  
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competition   the struggle between origanism to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources  
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predation   an interaction in one organism kills another for food  
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predator   the organism that dose the killing  
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prey   the organism that is killed  
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symbiosis   a close relationship in which both species benefit  
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mutualism   a relationship in which both species benefit  
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commensalism   a relationship in which one species benifits and the other is neither helped of harmed  
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parasitism   involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it  
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parasite   the organism that benefits  
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host   the organism it lives on or in  
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