vocabulary from Ecosystems - chapter 4
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| all the living and nonliving things in an environment, including their interactions with each other | ecosystem
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| the study of how living things and nonliving things interact | ecology
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| a nonliving part of an ecosystem | abiotic factor
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| a living part of an ecosystem | biotic factor
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| all the members of one species in an area | population
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| all the living things in an ecosystem | community
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| the place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows | habitat
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| the role (job) of an organism in a community | niche
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| the path of energy in the food from one organism to another | food chain
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| the overlapping food chains in an ecosystem | food web
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| an animal that eats plants, algae, and other producers | herbivore
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| an animal that eats another animal | carnivore
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| an animal that hunts other animals for food | predator
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| a living thing that is hunted for food | prey
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| a meat eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals | scavenger
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| an animal that eats both plants and animals | omnivore
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| the slow changing of a liquid into a gas | evaporation
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| the changing of a gas into a liquid | condensation
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| any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground | precipitation
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| the continuous movement of water between Earth’s surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas back to liquid | water cycle
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| the continuous exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen among living things | carbon cycle
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| the continuous trapping of nitrogen gas into compounds in the soil and its return to the air | nitrogen cycle
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