Ecology
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| Ecology | The study of plants and animals with each other and their environments
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| Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things that exist and interact in a given area.
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| Food Web | A series of overlapping food chains
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| Energy Pyramid | A diagram to show the amount of energy in a food chain. There is more energy at the producer level.
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| Carnivore | A consumer that eats other animals for food/energy
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| Herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants for food/energy.
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| Biotic | Living things
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| Abiotic | Non-living things
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| Mimicry | Some organisms adapt by looking like other organisms
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| Adaptation | A skill or feature that an animal develops over time which helps it to survive in its environment.
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| Omnivore | A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
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| Predator | An animal that kills and eats other animals.
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| Prey | An animal that is killed an eaten by a predator.
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| Producers | Green plants that can make their own food through photosynthesis.
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| Consumer | An animal that needs to eat plants/animals for food/energy.
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| Food Chain | The path of energy from producer to each consumer.
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| Camouflage | Some organisms blend in with their surroundings.
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| Evolution | The gradual change in a species over time.
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| Natural selection | Is the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species.
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| Overproduction | Organisms produce more offspring than the environment can support.
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| Variations | Organisms of the same species are very similar, but they do have individual differences among traits.
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| Competition | All the organisms struggle for food, water, and the other necessities of life. Only those organisms best suited to their surroundings survive and reproduce.
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| Extinction | is when a certain species completely dies out due to environmental changes and the inability to adapt to those changes.
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