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Ecosystems - Ch10

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organism   A living thing.  
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habitat   The place where an organism lives and where it obtains all the things it needs to survive.  
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biotic factor   A living part of an organism's habitat.  
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abiotic factor   A nonliving part of an organism's habitat  
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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   The community of organisms in an area, along with their nonliving environment.  
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biosphere   Includes all living things found from the deepest parts of the ocean to the upper atmosphere.  
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immigration   Moving into a population.  
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emigration   Leaving a population.  
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limiting factor   An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease.  
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carrying capacity   The largest population that an area can support.  
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producer   An organism that can make its own food.  
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consumer   An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other consumers.  
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herbivore   A consumer that eats only plants.  
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carnivore   A consumer that eats only animals.  
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omnivore   A consumer that eats both plants and animals.  
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scavenger   A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.  
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decomposer   An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.  
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food chain   A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.  
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food web   The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.  
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energy pyramid   A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.  
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adaptations   A behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.  
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niche   The role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living.  
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competition   The struggle between organisms to survive using the same limited resources.  
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predation   An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.  
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predator   The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction.  
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prey   An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.  
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symbiosis   A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species.  
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mutualism   A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.  
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commensalism   A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.  
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parasitism   A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it.  
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parasite   Organism that benefits by living on or in a host.  
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host   Organism that a parasite lives in or on.  
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