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Science

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Habitat   The place where an organism lives and that provides "the things" the organism needs  
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Detritus   Loose matter resulting from the wearing away or disintegration of a tissue or substance  
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Detritivores   An organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects.  
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Primary Succession   The changes that occur in an area where no ecosystem has existed  
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Secondary Succession   The changes that occur after a disturbance in an ecosystem  
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Succession   The replacement of one type of community by another at a single location over a period of time  
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Pioneer Species   A species that colonizes an inhabited area and that starts an ecological cycle in which many other species become established.  
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Niche   An organism's particular role in an ecosystem or hot it makes its living  
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Indigenous   Produced, growing, living or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment  
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Endemic   A species that is native to a particular place and that is found only there  
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Autotroph   An organism that makes its own food  
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Heterotroph   An organism that cannot make its own food  
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Crypsis   Avoidance of observation that allows an otherwise visible organism or object to remain hard to see from the surrounding environment through deception. EX: Camouflage  
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