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Population and communities

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organism   a living thing  
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habitat   an environment that provides the things the organism needs to live,grow and reproduce  
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biotic factors   a living part in an organism's habitat  
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abiotic factors   a nonliving thing part of an organism's habitat  
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photosynthesis   the process in which organisms use water, along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their own food  
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species   a group that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce  
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population   all the members of one species in a particular area  
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community   all the different populations that live together in an area  
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Ecosystem   The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surrounding.  
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Ecology   The study of how living things interact with e ach other and their environment  
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estimate   An appoximation of a number based on reasonable assumptions  
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birth rate   the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time in a certain area  
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death rate   the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time ina cerain area  
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immigration   moving into a population  
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emmigration   leaving a population  
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population density   the number of individuals in an area of specific size  
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limiting factor   an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease  
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carring capacity   the largest population that an area can support  
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natural selection   A process by which characteristics that make an individual better suited to its environment become common in a species  
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adaption   the behavior and physical characteristics the allow organisms to live sucessfuly in their envirenment  
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niche   the role of an organism in its habitat or how it makes its living  
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compitition   the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited sorce  
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predation   an interaction which on organism kills another organism for food  
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predator   the organism that does the killing in a predition interaction  
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prey   an organism that is killed and eaten by anther organism  
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symbosis   a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species  
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mutualism   The relationship between two species in which both species benefit.  
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commensalism   A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed  
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parasitism   A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it.  
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parasite   The organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction  
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host   The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction  
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