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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mutualism | Organisms that benefit from one another |
| population | more than one of the same species |
| symbiosis | two different organisms that live in close affection with one another |
| community | all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other |
| parasitism | one benefits other is harmed |
| prey | an organism that is killed or eaten by another organism |
| predator | an organism that kills or eats another organism |
| commensalism | one organism benefits and one doesn't get affected |
| coevolution | the evolution of two species that is due to mutual influence |
| biotic | living factors |
| abotic | nonliving factors |
| ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic enviorenment |
| biosphere | the world |
| herbivore | eats only plants |
| carnivore | eats only meat |
| omnivore | eats both plants and animals |
| food chain | a pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms |
| food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain |