Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems Vocabulary
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| abiotic factor | a nonliving part of an organism's habitat
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| biotic factor | a living part of an organisms habitat
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| habitat | an environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce
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| climate | the typical weather pattern in an area over time
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| dispersal | the movement from organisms from one place to another
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| biogeography | the study of where organisms live
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| biome | a group of land ecosystem with similar climates and organisms
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| aquatic ecosystem | an organism where the organisms spend majority of their life in water
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| primary succession | the series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organism exist
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| secondary succession | the series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed but where soil and organisms still exist
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| limiting factor | an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
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| symbiosis | a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species
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| competition | the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources
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| mutualism | a relationship between two species in which both species benefit
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| commensalism | a relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor hurt
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| parasite | the organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism (parasitic) intereaction
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| host | the organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism (parasitic) interaction
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| predator | the organism that does the killing in a predation interaction
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| prey | an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism
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