Interactions of Living things
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| ecology | the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment
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| biotic | describes living factors in the environment
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| abiotic | describes nonliving factors in the environment
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| population | a group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same area at the same time
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| community | all of the populations of different species that live and interact in an area
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| ecosystem | a community of organisms and their nonliving environment
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| biosphere | the part of the Earth where life exists
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| herbivore | a consumer that eats plants
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| carnivore | a consumer that eats animals
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| omnivore | a consumer that eats a variety of organisms
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| scavenger | an animal that feeds on the bodies of dead animals
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| food chain | a diagram that represents the many energy pathways in a real ecosystem
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| food web | a complex diagram representing the many energy pathways in a real ecosystem
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| energy pyramid | a diagram shaped like a triangle shows the loss of energy at each level of the food chain
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| habitat | the environment where an organism lives
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| niche | an organism's way of life and its relationships with its abiotic and biotic environments
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| carrying capacity | the largest population that a given environment can support over a long period of time
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| prey | an organism that is eaten by another organism
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| predator | an organism that eats other organisms
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| symbiosis | a close, long-term association between two or more species
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| mutualism | a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
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| commensalism | a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
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| parasitism | a symbiotic association in which one organism benefits while the other organism is harmed
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| coevolution | the long-term changes that take place in two species because of their close interactions with one another
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