Interactions of Living Things
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| ecosystem | A community of organisms and its abiotic environment.
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| biotic | The part of the environment that includes all of the organisms that live together and interact with one another.
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| decomposer | An organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead organisms.
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| community | All of the populations of different species that live and interact in an area.
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| ecology | The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment.
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| scavenger | Animals that feed on the bodies of dead animals.
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| consumer | An organism that eats producers or other organisms to get energy.
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| population | A group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same area at
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| omnivore | A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
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| producer | An organism that uses sunlight to make food. Sunlight is their source of energy.
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| organism | An individual living thing.
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| prey | The organism that is eaten by a predator.
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| carnivore | A consumer that eats animals.
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| biosphere | The part of the Earth where life exists.
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| abiotic | The part of the environment that includes all of the nonliving factors that affect organisms. This includes water, soil, light, and temperature.
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| predator | The organism that eats the prey.
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| herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants.
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| symbosis | A close long-term relationship between 2 or more organisms.
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| commensalism | A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
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| mutualism | A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
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| parasitism | A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits while the other is harmed.
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| parasite | Organism that benefits in a parasitic relationship.
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| host | Organism that is harmed in a parasitic relationship.
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| niche | An organism's way of life within an ecosystem. Its food, habitat, predators, prey, competition, family structure.
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| habitat | The environment in which an organism lives.
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| carrying capacity | The largest population that a given environment can support over a long period of time.
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| competition | When two organisms try to use the same limited resource.
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| energy pyramid | A way to represent the loss of energy at each level of the food chain.
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| food web | A diagram showing the many pathways between organisms.
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| food chain | A linear diagram that shows how energy flows from one organism to the next.
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| coevolution | the long-term changes that take place in two species because of their close interactions with one another
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