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| 1. Ecology | the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
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| 2. Ecologist | a scientist who studies ecology
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| 4. Biotic Factor | the living part of an ecosystem
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| 5. Abiotic Factor | the nonliving parts of an ecosystem
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| 6. Populations | all the members of one species in a particular area
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| 7. Communities | all the different populations that live together in an area
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| 8. Population Density | the number of individuals in a specific area
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| 9. Immigration | moving into a population
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| 10. Emigration | leaving a population
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| 11. Limiting Factors | an environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing
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| 12. Carrying Capacity | the largest population that an environment can support
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| 13. Niche | an organism’s particular role, or how it makes its living. A niche includes the activities and behaviors that help it satisfy the need for food, water, living space, and reproduction
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| 14. Competition | the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
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| 15. Predation | an interaction in which one organism hunts and kills another for food
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| 16. Predator | an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
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| 17. Prey | an animal that a predator feeds upon
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| 18. Symbiosis | a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one species
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| 19. Mutualism | a relationship in which both species benefit
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| 20. Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed
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| 21. Parasitism | It involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it. A parasite lives on or in a host
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| 22. Producer | an organism that can make its own food
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| 23. Consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
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| 24. Herbivore | an animal that eats only plants
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| 24. Herbivore | an animal that eats only other animals
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| 26. Omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and other animals
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| 27. Scavenger | an animal that feeds on the remains of decaying organisms
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| 28. Decomposer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
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| 29. Food Chain | a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. It shows one way energy flows through an ecosystem
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| 30. Food Web | the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. It shows various ways energy can move through an ecosystem
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| 31. Energy Pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food chain
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| 32. Water Cycle | - the processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation that recycles our water supply
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| 33. Evaporation | the process by which molecules of a liquid absorb energy and change to the gas state
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| 34. Condensation | a gas changes to a liquid
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| 35. Precipitation | rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls from the sky
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| 36. Transpiration | evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
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| 37. Carbon and Oxygen | The producers use the carbon from the carbon dioxide they take in to produce other carbon containing molecules. They give off oxygen which the consumers take in
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| 38. Nitrogen Cycle | nitrogen moves from the air to the soil, into living things, and back into the air
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| 39. Nitrogen Fixation | the process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form of nitrogen
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