ecology vocab
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| producer | organisms that make their own food by performing photosynthesis
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| consumer | don't make their own food, they eat other organisms
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| prey | the organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism
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| parasite | an organism that lives on and harms a host organism
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| host | the organism that is harmed by a parasite
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| symbiosis | a relationship in which two organisms of different species live together for a period of time
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| predation | one animal kills and eats the other animal
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| parasitism | a symbiotic relationship where one organism is helped while the other is harmed
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| secondary consumer | animals that eat other animals that ate plants
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| herbivore | animal that eats plants
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| omnivore | eats both plants and animals
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| carnivore | eat only other animals
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| ecosystem | a community, its habitat, and all the relations within that habitat
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| niche | a particular role a species has
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| commensalism | two species interacting when one species is benefited while the other is unaffected
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| mutulism | two species interacting and both benefit
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| carry capacity | the maximum number of organisms the resources of an economy can support
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| abiotic | non-living factors that affect the ability of organisms to survive
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| biotic | living things or their materials that directly or indirectly affect an organism in its environment
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| limiting factors | factors that determine the types and numbers of organisms of a species in an ecosystem
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| population | number of individuals of one species in a community
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| competition | a relationship where two types of organisms compete for the same resources such as food, water, and shelter
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| community | all the plants and animals that live in the same habitat
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| organism | a single living thing, that is able to grow or reproduce
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| energy pyramid | a pyramid that shows the organisms of different trophic levels
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