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Chapter Eleven

Living Things and The Environment

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environment everything that surrounds an organism and acts upon it.
ecology study of the relationship between living things and their environments.
interact process of organisms acting upon one another or on the nonliving parts of their environment.
population group of the same kind of organisms living in a certain place.
community all the populations that live in a certain place and can interact with one another.
ecosystem group of communities interacting with each other and the nonliving parts of their environment.
habitat place where an organism lives.
niche organism's role, or job, in its habitat.
limiting factor condition in the environment that puts limits on the size a population can grow to.
carrying capacity largest population size that can be supported by the available resources of an area.
range area where a type of animal or plant population is found.
climate average weather or an area over a long period of time.
biome large region with a characteristic climate and plant and animal communities.
succession gradual change in the population of organisms that occurs when the environment changes.
climax last community in a succession.
natural resource material found in nature that is used by living things.
renewable resource natural resource that can be reused or replaced.
nonrenewable resource natural resource that cannot be reused or replaced.
conservation wise use of natural resources.
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