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Ecology   the study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and their environment  
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Biotic   describes living factors in the same environment  
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Abiotic   describes the nonliving part of the environment including water, rocks, light, and temperature  
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5 levels of environmental organization   organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere  
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Organism   a living thing; anything that can carry out life process independently  
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Population   a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area  
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Community   all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other  
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Ecosystem   a community of organisms and their abiotic ,or nonliving, environment  
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Biosphere   the part of Earth where life exists  
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Producer/Autotroph   an organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings  
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Consumer/Heterotroph   an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter  
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Herbivore   an organism that eats only plants  
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Carnivore   an organism that eats only animals  
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Omnivore   an organism that eats both plants and animals  
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Scavenger   an organism that preys on dead animals  
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Decomposer   an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients  
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Food Web   a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem  
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Food Chain   the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organism  
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Energy Pyramid   a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystems food chain  
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Limiting Factor   a resource that is so scarce that it limits the size of a population  
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Carrying Capacity   the largest population that an environment can support at any given time  
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Predator   an organism that kills and eats all or part of another organism  
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Prey   an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism  
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Predator Adaptations   methods that predators use to catch their prey  
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Prey Adaptations   methods that preys use to not get caught by the predator  
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Symbiosis   a relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other  
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Mutualism   a relationship between two species in which both species benefit  
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Commensalism   a relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected  
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Parisitism   a relationship between two species in which one species, the parasite, benefits, from the other species, the host, which is harmed  
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