Ecology unit- Science- Elaine Miller
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| niche | how an organism survives, inclucing it's habitat, how it obtains food & shelter, & how it avoids danger
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| habitat | where an organism lives
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| population | all organisms in an ecosystem that belong to the same species
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| community | all populations in an ecosystem
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| ecosystem | all organisms living in an area & the nonliving features of the environment
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| biosphere | part of the Earth that supports life, including the top part of the Earth's crust, all water on Earth, & the surrounding atmosphere
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| limiting factor | anything that restricts the number of individuals in a population
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| carrying capacity | the largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time
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| ecology | the study of interactions that occur among organsims & their environment
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| producer | organisms that use an outside energy source, such as the Sun, to make energy-rich molecules
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| consumer | organisms that can't make their own energy-rich molecules
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| symbiosis | any close relationship between species
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| mutualism | a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit
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| commensalism | a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits & the other isn't affected
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| parasitism | a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benifits but the other is harmed
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| predator | consumers that capture and eat other consumers
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| prey | the organism that is captured by the predator
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| competition | fighting for necesary life materials
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| chemosynthesis | the process of making food from chemicals
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| food chain | a way of showing how matter and energy pass from one orgainsim to another
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| food web | a model that shows all the possible feeding relationships among the orgainisms in a community
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| energy pyramid | shows the amound of energy available at each feeding level in the ecosystem
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