Holt - Ecosystems Chap 1 Vocabulary 2012
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| organism | one living individual
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| population | a group of more than one of the same organism
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| community | all the living organisms within an area
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| ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic environment
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| biosphere | the part of Earth where life exists
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| producer | Uses sunlight to make food
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| consumer | Gets it energy from eating producers or other organisms
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| decomposer | Get their energy by breaking down dead organisms - bacteria and fungi are examples
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| herbivore | eats only planst
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| carnivore | eats only animals
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| omnivore | eats both plants and meat
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| food chain | a diagram showing how energy in food flows from one organism to another
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| food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationship between many organisms in an ecosystem
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| biotic | living
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| abiotic | non-living (examples:water, rocks, light, temperature)
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| carrying capacity | the largest population an evironment can support at a given time
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| mutualism | symbiotic relationship - both organisms benefit (example: coral and algae)
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| prey | an organism that is hunted and killed by another organism
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| commensalism | symbiotic relationship - one organism benefits while not harming the host (example: Remora attached to shark or turtle)
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| predator | an organism that hunts and eats another organism
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| parasitism | symbiotic relationship - one organism benefits and harms host
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| symbiosis | a relationship where two different organisms live in close association with each other
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| coevolution | Change over long period of time that evolves two species - often a good change
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