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6th Grade Ecology and the Environment Vocabulary

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Biotic Factor   An Interaction that involves a living or one living organism  
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Abiotic Factor   A nonliving part of an environment  
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Population   A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place at the same time  
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Species   Organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring  
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Community   All the populations of soecies that live in the same habitat and interact with each other  
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Ecosystem   A community of organisms and their nonliving environment  
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Producer   An organism that can make its own food  
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Decomposer   An organism that gets energy and mutrients by breaking gown the remains of other organisms  
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Consumer   An organism that eats other organisms  
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Food Chain   The path of energy transfer from producers to consumers  
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Food Web   A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in a ecosystem  
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Carrying Capacity   The largest population that an invironment can support  
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Predator   An organism that kills and eats another organism  
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Prey   An animal that is killed and eaten by another animal  
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Symbiosis   A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other  
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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 unaffected  
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Parasitism   A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other species is harmed  
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Renewable Resource   A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resources is consumed  
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Nonrenewable Resource   A resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than rate at which the resource is consumed  
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