Ecosystem Vocabulary
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| Species | A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reprouduce
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| Species | Humans are the ultimate invasive species with an appalling record of exploitation and destruction
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| Population | Members of one species living in a particular area
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| Population | The population of San Francisco is 825,863 in 2012
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| Community | all the different populations that live together in an area
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| Community | The big community in the world is the Huntley Park District
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| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in a particular area,along with their nonliving environment
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| Ecosystem | Scientists can detect many effects of people marine ecosystem
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| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment
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| Ecology | My second line of research concerns the behavioral ecology of social bees
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| Immigration | Moving into a population
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| Immigration | Racism must not panic us into changing immigration policies
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| Emigration | Leaving a population
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| Emigration | Another trend to watch is emigration from rich countries
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| Population Density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size (number of individuals/unit area
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| Population Density | The population density of New Mexico is much less than New York
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| Limiting Factor | An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size (ex. weather conditions,space,food and water
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| Limiting Factor | One limiting factor of solar power is that access to the sun in the constant
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| Carrying Capacity | The largest population that an area can support
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| Carrying Capacity | Consider the carrying capacity with current feeding standards
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| Niche | The role of an organism in its habitat
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| Niche | A poor little hamster was stuck in the niche of a rock
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| Competition | The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources
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| Competition | The 2014 dance competition is next Friday night
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| Symbiosis | A relationship in which two species live closely together and at least one of the species benefits
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| Symbiosis | The trade that peacefully occurs between the two warning tribes is viewed as an example of symbiosis
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| Mutualism | A relationship in which both species benefits
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| Mutualism | My favorite form of Mutualism is the biological kind
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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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| Commensalism | Remoras and sharks have a relationship called Commensalism
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| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organisms living, on, or inside another organism and harming it
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| Parasitism | Dogs have quite reached that point in their parasitism of human society
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