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populations and Communities

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organism   a living thing  
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habitat   an envirment  
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biotic factor   a living part of a organisms habitat  
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abiotic factor   a nonliving part of a organisms habitat  
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Photosythisis   The prosses in which plants use water along with carbon dioxide to make its own food  
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Species   A group of organisms that are physically simaler and can mate and reperduce offspring and reperduce  
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Populations   How many of the species are in a area  
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Community   More than one species in a area  
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Ecosystem   A place where there are living things and nonliving things  
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Ecology   The effects of different environments  
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Emigration   Leaving a population  
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Estimate   An approximation of a number based on reasonable assumptions  
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Birth rate   The number of births in a population in a certain amount of time  
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Death rate   The number of deaths in a certain amount of time  
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Immigration   Moving into a population  
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Population density   The number of individuals in a specific area  
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Limiting factor   An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease  
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Carrying capacity   The largest population that an area can support  
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Natural selection   A process by which charecteristic that make individual better suited to its envirment become more common in a species  
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Adaptations   A behavior or physical charecteristic that allows an organism to live successfully in its envirment  
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Niche   The role of an organism in its habitat,or how it makes its living  
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Competition   The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same resource  
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Predation   An interaction in which one organism kills another  
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Predator   The organism that does the killing  
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Prey   The organism that gets killed  
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Symbiosis   A close relationship between two species that benefits something good for for at least one of them  
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Mutualism   A close relationship in which both species benefit  
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Commensalism   A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed  
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Parasitism   One organism living on or inside another organism and not harming it  
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Parasite   The organism that benefits  
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Host   The organism that does not benefit  
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