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Populations and Communities

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organism   a living thing  
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habitat   a place were it is suitable for a organism to live  
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biotic factor   a living part of an organisms habitat  
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abiotic factor   a nonliving part of an organisms factor  
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photosynthesis   the process in which organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food  
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species   a group of organisms that are phisically similar and can and can mate with each other and produce offsprings that can also mate and reproduce  
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population   all of the members of a species in a particular area  
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photosynthesis   the process in which organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food  
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species   a group of organisms that are phisically similar and can and can mate with each other and produce offsprings that can also mate and reproduce  
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population   all of the members of a species in a particular area  
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community   all the different populations that live together in a area  
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photosynthesis   the process in which organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food  
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species   a group of organisms that are phisically similar and can and can mate with each other and produce offsprings that can also mate and reproduce  
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population   all of the members of a species in a particular area  
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community   all the different populations that live together in a area  
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photosynthesis   the process in which organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food  
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species   a group of organisms that are phisically similar and can and can mate with each other and produce offsprings that can also mate and reproduce  
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population   all of the members of a species in a particular area  
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community   all the different populations that live together in a area  
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ecosystem   the community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings  
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ecology   the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment  
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estimate   a approximation of a number, based on a reasonable assumptions  
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birth rate   the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time  
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death rate   the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time  
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immigration   moving into a population  
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emigration   leaving a population  
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population density   the number of individuals in a specific area  
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limiting factors   an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease  
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carrying 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 more common to a species  
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adaptions   a behavior or physical characteristic that allows a organism to live successfully in its environment  
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niche   the role of a organism its habitat ,or how it makes its living  
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competition   the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource  
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predation   a interactive in which one organism kills another for food  
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predator   the organism that does killing in a predation interaction  
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prey   the organism that gets killed and eaten by another organism  
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symbiosis   a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species  
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mutualism   a 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 nor 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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