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Chapter 18,19,20 Science Vocabulary

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environment   all the nonliving things around an organism and aggect the life of the the organism  
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habitat   particluar place where an organism lives  
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population   tatal number of individuals of one species occupying the same area  
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community   made up of all the population that live and interact with each other in an area  
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niche   the role of and organism within its community  
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biotic   things that are living or were once living  
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abiotic   things that are nonliving and never were living  
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ecosystem   community6 of organisms- producers, consumers, and decomposer- that interact with each other an their surroundings  
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symiosis   the close physical relationship between two organisms and exists in 3 forms  
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commensalisms   a relationship where only one thing benifits from a symbiosis  
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mutalism   a relationship between 2 organisms in which both benefit  
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parasitism   one organism(the parasite) lives on and obtains its food from another organism- (the host) host is harmed not helped  
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consumer   organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms or plants  
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producer   organism that can make its own food by photosynthesis or chemosynthesis  
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herbivore   organisms that eat only plants  
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carnivore   consumer that eat only meat  
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omnivore   consumers that eat both plants and animals  
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decomposer   organism that breaks down tissue and released nutrients and carbon dioxide back into the ecosystem  
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scavenger   a consumer of dead or decaying plant matter and animal. It eats things that are dead or have been killed by something else  
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food chain   series of stages that shows the transfer of energy from producers to consumers and decomposers  
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food web   combination of all the overlapping food chains in an ecosystem  
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limit factor   any condition that influences the growth or survival of an organism of species (ex. wind, water,air)  
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nonliving limiting factor   each organism fills a certain niche in its community and competition results when two organisms try to fill the same niche. They will compete for food, water, ect  
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predator   animals that eat and catch other organisms  
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prey   the animals predators eat  
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adaptation   a characeristic that increased the chance of an organism to survive in an environment  
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