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Ecology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abiotic | the non-living components in and ecosystem including water, temperature and light |
| biodiversity | the variety of life at every level, from genes to species to ecosystems |
| biotic | the living components in an ecosystem |
| commensalism | relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed |
| competition | organisms compete for the same resource |
| consumer | an organisms that gets its energy from eating other organisms |
| decomposer | an organism that gets is food from dead organisms and wastes from living organisms |
| ecology | the study of the relationships of organisms to one another and to the physical environment |
| ecosystem | all of the living and non living things and the interactions between them |