Interactions of Living Things
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| ecology | Study of how different organisms interact with one another and their environment
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| biotic | The living parts of the environment
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| abiotic | The non-living parts of the environment
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| population | A group of individuals of the same species in the same area
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| community | All the different populations that live and interact in the area
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| ecosystem | A community and its abiotic environment
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| biome | The part of the earth where life exists
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| producers (autotroph) | organisms that use sunlight directly to make food
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| photosynthesis | process that producers go through to use sunlight to make food
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| consumer (heterotroph) | an organism that eats other organisms
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| herbivore | a consumer that eats only plants
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| omnivore | a consumer that eats both plants and animals
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| carnivore | a consumer that eats only animals
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| scavenger | omnivore that eats dead plants and animals
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| decomposers | organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms
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| competition | When 2 or more organisms or populations try to use the same resource, such as sunlight, water, space, food, shelter
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| predator | an organism that kills and eats all or part of an organism
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| prey | an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism
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| adaptations | camouflage, mimicry, defensive chemicals and warning coloration are examples of this
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| symbiosis | a close, long-term association between two or more species where at least one organism benefits.
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| mutualism | a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
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| commensalism | a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
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| parasitism | a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed
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| parasite | The organism that benefits in a parasitic relationship
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| host | The organism that is harmed in a parasitic relationship
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