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Vocabulary for the Ecology quiz

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autotrophs   organisms that make their own food; another name for producers  
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heterotrophs   organisms that cannot make their own food; another name for consumers  
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homeostasis   the process by which an organism’s internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment  
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ecosystem   all of the living and nonliving things that interact in an area  
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habitat   the place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs  
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biotic   living part of an ecosystem  
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abiotic   nonliving part of an ecosystem  
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community   all of the different populations that live together in an area  
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population   all of the members of one species in a particular area  
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ecology   the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment  
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limiting factor   an environmental 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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