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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