Ecology
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| Abiotic Factor | Any nonliving part of the environment, such as water, sunlight, temperature, and air.
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| Biosphere | Part of Earth that supports life - the top part of Earth's crust, all the waters covering Earth's surface, and the surrounding atmosphere; includes all biomes, ecosystems, communities, and populations.
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| Biotic Factor | Any living or once-living organism in the environment.
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| Community | All of the populations of different species in a given area that interact in some way and depend on one another for food, shelter, and other needs.
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| Ecology | Study of all the interactions among organisms and their environments.
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| Ecosystem | All of the communities in a given area and the abiotic factors that affect them.
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| Population | All of the individuals of one species that live in the same space at the same time.
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| Habitat | Place where an organism lives.
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| Limiting Factor | Any biotic or abiotic factor that limits the number of individuals in a population.
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| Niche | Role of an organism in the ecosystem, including what it eats, how it interacts with other organisms, and how it gets food.
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| Population Density | Number of individuals in a population that occupies an area of limited size.
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| Symbiosis | Any close interaction among 2 or more different species, including mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
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| Food Chain | Model that describes how energy passes from one organism to another.
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| Food Web | Model that describes how energy from food moves through a community; a series of over lapping food chains.
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| Water Cycle | Continuous recycling of water molecules on Earth that are recycled through this process using evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
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