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| carnivore | meat eater
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| carrying capacity | the least available resource in an environment controls the communities ability to hold the population
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| competition | refers to the way organisms try to get resources at the expense of the other organism
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| deciduous | trees that lose their leaves
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| deforestation | removing trees in large areas - usually to make way for farm lands
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| ecological footprint | damage to the environment as a result of human activity
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| fossil fuels | energy sources that come from dead organisms buried underground for many years
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| global warming | the process of allowing the earth to heat as a result of greenhouse effect
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| habitable | an area that is able to be lived in
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| herbivores | animals that eat only plants
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| hydrosphere | a term used to describe the water layer of the earth surface
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| infrastructure | term used to describe roads, power grids, bridges, water systems, etc. for public use
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| lichens | small lime green colored plants that have an unusual ability to cling to rock surface
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| lithosphere | the solid layer of rock along the earth's surface
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| mutualism | a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the other
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| parasitism | a form of symbiosis in which one species benefits and the other is harmed
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| phytoplankton | a microscopic plant found in water biomes which is often the base of the food chain
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| population | the number of one type of organism within a ecosystem's community
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| precipitation | usually rain or snow
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| population density | how far apart members of a population live
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| predation | the process of one animal that hunts and feeds another animal
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| predator | an animal that hunts another animal
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| prey | the animal being hunted
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| runnoff | water that does not seep into the soil layers, instead traveling along the surface
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| species diversity | variation within a species population.
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| terrestrial biomes | biomes that occur on land territory
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| urban sprawl | when city areas spread out to suburban areas
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| urbanization | the process of making an area more like a city
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| watershed | a large area that drains all into one large drainage basin such as the mississippi river
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