Mr Camp - Topic 6
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| abiotic | nonliving parts of the environment ex: soil, CO2, O2, temperature, water, sunlight
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| autotroph | organism that produces its own food, aka producer, the source of energy for all other living things on Earth
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| biodiversity | variety of species in an area
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| biosphere | all of the Earth's ecosystems, inhabited portions of the Earth, includes all of the land, air and water in which organisms survive
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| biotic | the living parts of the environment
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| carnivore | organism that survives be eating other animals(herbivores)
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| carrying capacity | the largest population of any single species that an area can support
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| community | a combination of different populations that live and interact in the same environment
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| competition | the struggle between organisms for the same limited resources in a articular area, occurs when niches overlap
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| consumer | an organism that obtains its energy from predators
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| decomposer | an organism, generally an bacterium(bacteria) or fungus, that consumes dead organisms and organic waste and returns the nutrients to the soil/water for producters(autotrophs)
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| ecology | the study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment
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| ecological niche | the specific role played by an existing community is replaced by another community
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| ecological succession | the process by which an existing community is replaced by another community
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| ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things that interact n a specific area; a subdivision of the environment
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| energy pyramid | a diagram used to show how food energy flows through the ecosystem
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| environment | every living and nonliving thing that surrounds an organism
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| food chain | a representation that identifies the specific feeding relationships among organisms
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| habitat | the place where an animal or plant lives
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| herbivore | organism that eats only plants, a.k.a. primary consumer, receives 10% of energy from the producers(autotrophs)
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| host | the organism in a parasitic relationship that provides a home and/or food for the parasite
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| limiting factors | any factor in the environment that limits the size of a population
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| parasite | an organism that survives by living and feeding on other organisms
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| population | all the individuals of a single species that live in a specific area
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| predator | an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
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| prey | an animal that is hunted and killed by predators
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| producers | organisms that makes its own food from light energy and inorganic materials such as CO2 & H2O
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| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the remains of dead organisms
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