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chapter ten environment

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organism   a living thing  
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habitat   an environment that provides the things the organism needs to live, grow,and reproduce.  
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biotic factors   the living parts of a habitat  
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abiotic factors   the nonliving parts of an organisms habitat.  
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photosynthesis   when plants and algae need water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their own food in a process  
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species   a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with eachother and produce offspring that also mate and reproduce  
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population   all the members of one spiecies in a particular area.  
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community   all the different populations that live together in an area  
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ecosystem   the community of organisms that live in a particular area,along with their nonliving surroundings  
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ecology   the study of how living things interact with eachother and with their environment  
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birth rate   the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time.  
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death rate   the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time.  
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immigration   moving into a population  
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emigration   leaving a population  
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limiting factor   an environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing.  
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limiting factors   some limiting factors for populations are food and water,space,light soil compositions,and weather conditions.  
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carrying capacity   the largest population that an area can support.  
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energy roles   each of the organisms in an ecosystem fills the energy role of producer,consumer,or decomposer.  
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producer   an organism that can make it own food  
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consumer   an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.for example herbivores, carnivores,omnivores,and a scavenger  
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herbivore   consumer that eats only plants  
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carnivore   eat only other animals  
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omnivores   eats both plants and animals  
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scavenger   a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms  
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decomposers   breaks down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem.  
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food chain   a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy  
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food web   consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem  
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energy pyramid   shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.  
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natural selection   a charactoristic that makes an indevidual better suited to its environment may eventualy become common in that speices  
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adaptations   the behaviors and physical charactoristics that allow organisms to live sucessfully in their environment  
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niche   the role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living  
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competition   the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource  
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predation   an interaction in which one organism kills another for food  
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preditor   the organism that does the killing  
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prey   the organism that gets killed  
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symbiosis   a close relationship between two speices that benefits at least one of the speices  
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mutualism   a relationship in which both speices benefit  
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commensalism   a relationship in which one speices benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed  
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parasitism   involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it  
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parasite   the organism that benifits  
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host   the organism it lives on or in  
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