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Ecology   The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment  
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Biotic   The living parts of an ecosystem  
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Abiotic   A non living parts of an ecosystem  
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5 levels of environmental organization   Food, water, shelters and other things it need to survive, grow, and reproduce from its surrounding  
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Organism   Individual animal, plants or single celled form  
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Population   All the members of a species in particular area  
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Community   All the different population that live together in an area  
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Ecosystem   All the living and non living things that interact in particular area  
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Biosphere   Regions of the surface, atmosphere and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organism  
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Producer/autotroph   Organism that is able to form nutritional organic substance from simple substance such as carbon dioxide  
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Consumer/heterotroph   Organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substance  
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Herbivore   Animals that eat plants  
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Carnivore   Animal that eats flesh  
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Omnivore   Animal or human that eats both plants and animals  
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Scavenger   Animal that eats carrion, dead plants, material or refuse  
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Decomposer   Organism that decompose organic materials  
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Food web   System of interlocking and interdependent food chain  
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Food chain   Hierarchical series of organism each dependent on the next as a food chain  
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Energy pyramid   Depiction of the amount of energy in each tropic level of an ecosystem  
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Limiting factor   Resource or environmental condition that limits the growth abundance, or distributions of an organism or population of organism in an ecosystem  
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Carrying capacity   Number of people, other living organism or crops that a region can support without environmental issue  
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Predator   Animal that naturally prey on others  
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Prey   Animal that is hunted and killed by another's for food  
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Predator adaptions   Adaptation that help predators hunt  
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Prey adaptions   Adaptation that help prey hide  
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Symbiosis   Interaction between two different organism living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both  
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Mutualism   Symbiosis that is beneficial to both organism involve  
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Commensalism   Association between two organisms in which one benefit and the other derives neither benefit nor harm  
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Parisitism   Organism living off another organism in which the first organism is parasite to the host and cause the harm to the host to its advantage.  
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