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Vocabulary 1

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Ecology (p 388)   study of the interactions among living things and their surroundings.  
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Ecosystem (p389)   collection of the organisms and nonliving things, such as climate, soil, water,and rocks, in an area.  
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Community (p389)   collection of all of the different populations that that live in one area.  
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Biome (p389)   regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and plant communities that thrive there  
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Autotroph   organism that obtains its energy from abiotic sources, such as sunlight or inorganic chemicals.  
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Consumer   organism that obtain its energy and nutrients by eating other organisms  
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Producer (p398)   organism that its energy from abiotic sources, such as sunlight or inorganic chemicals.  
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Heterotroph   organism that obtains its energy and nutrients by consuming other organisms.  
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Chemosynthesis   process by which ATP is synthesized by using chemicals as an energy source instead of light.  
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Food Chain (p400)   model that links organisms by their feeding relationships  
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Herbivore   organism that eats only plants  
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Carnivore   organism that obtains energy by eating only animals.  
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Omnivore   organism that eats both plants and animals  
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Detritivore   organism that eats dead organic matter  
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Decomposer   detritivore that breaks down organic matter into simpler compounds, returning nutrients back into an ecosystem  
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Generalists   species that does not reply on a single source of prey  
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Trophic Levels   level of nourishment in a food chain.  
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Food Web   model that shows the complex network of feeding relationships within an ecosystem  
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