Science Ecology
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| Ecology | The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
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| habitat | The places where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs
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| Niche | An organisms particular role in an ecosystem or how it makes its living
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| Environment | The surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal or plant lives
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| Species | A group of similar organisms whose members can mate with one another and produce fertile offspring
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| Population | All the members of one species in a particular area
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| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area
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| Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving that interact in an area
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| Biome | Group of ecosystems that have have the same climate and similar dominant communities
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| Succession | The series of predictable changes that occur in a community overtime
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| Pioneer Organism | The first organism to populate an area
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| Climax Community | Last community in a successful
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| Producers | Organisms that make its own food
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| Consumers | Organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
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| Herbivore | Animal that only eats plants
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| Carnivore | Animal that only eats meat/animals
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| Omnivore | Animal that eats both plants and animals
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| Decomposer | Organisms that breaks down and returns important materials to soil + H20 large chemicals from dead materials organisms into small chemicals
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| Mutualism | A type of symbiosis in which both partners benefit from living together
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| Parasitism | A relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another and harms it
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| Commensalism | Relationship between 2 species in which one species benefits + the other is neither helped nor harmed
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| Transpiration | Process by which H20 is lost through plant's leaves
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| Condensation | Process by which a gas changes to a liquid
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| Legumes | Plants that have bumps called nodules on their roots
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| Limiting Factor | An environment factor that prevents a population from increasing
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| Carrying Capacity | The largest population that an area can support
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