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Vocabulary Review Ch 1 Environment book

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ecosystem   all the living and nonliving things that interact and in a particular area  
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habitat   the place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs  
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biotic factors   the living parts of an ecosystem  
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abiotic factors   the nonliving parts of an ecosystem  
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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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unit of organization in an ecosystem   organism, populaton, community, ecosystem  
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ecology   the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment  
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population density   the number of individuals divided by the unit area  
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direct observation   counting the population one by one  
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indirect observation   counting the tracks, nests, or other signs of the population, then estimating the number of organisms  
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mark and recapture   capture an animal, mark it, release it, recapture and count  
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birth rate   the number of births in a population over a period of time  
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death rate   the number of deaths in a population over a period of time.  
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immigration   moving into a population  
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emmigration   leaving a population  
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limiting factors   an environmental factor the prevents a population from increasing  
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carrying capacity   the largest population that an evironment can support  
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adaptations   the behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment  
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niche   an organism's particular role, or how it makes it living  
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competition   the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources  
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predation   an interaction in which one organism kills and eats another  
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predator   the organism that kills another for food  
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prey   an organism that is killed and eaten by a predator  
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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 is which both species benefit  
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commensalism   a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed  
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parasitism   a relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another organism and harming it  
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parasite   the organism that benefits in a parasitic relationship  
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host   the organism a parasite lives in or on  
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estimate   the approximation of a number  
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photosynthesis   the process of using water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide to make food  
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