Unit 7 Chapter 1
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| Habitat | The place within an ecosystem where an organism lives; provides the biotic and abiotic factors an organism needs to survive and reproduce.
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| Population | All the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
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| Community | All the populations living in an ecosystem at the same time.
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| Niche | The way a species interacts with abiotic and biotic factors to obtain food, find shelter and fulfill other needs.
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| Predation | The act of one organism, the predator, feeding on another organism, its prey.
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| Symbiosis | A close, long-term relationship between two species that usually involves an exchange of food or energy.
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| Carrying Capacity | The largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time.
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| Producer | An organism that uses an outside energy source, such as the Sun, and produces its own food. Also known as an autotroph.
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| Consumer | An organism that cannot make its own food and gets energy by eating other organisms. Also known as a heterotroph.
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| Detritivore | An organism that consumes the bodies of dead organisms and wastes produced by living organisms.
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| Food Web | A model of energy transfer that can show how the food chains in a community are interconnected.
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| Energy Pyramid | A model that shows the amount of energy available in each link of a food chain.
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| Renewable Resource | A natural resource that can be replenished by natural processes as quickly as it is used.
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| Nonrenewable Resource | A natural resource that is used up faster than it can be replaced by natural processes.
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| Resource Depletion | The exhaustion of one or more resources in an area.
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| Ecosystem | A community of living things and their nonliving environment interacting as a unit.
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| Abiotic factor | The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
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| Biotic factor | The living or once-living parts of an ecosystem.
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| Invasive species | Harmful species not native to a region.
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| Food chain | A simple model that shows how energy moves from a producer to one or more consumers through feeding relationships.
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