MVMS Ecology
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Abiotic | The nonliving, physical features of the environment. (ex air, water, soil, sunlight, temperature and climate
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| Biosphere | The part of Earth that supports life
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| Biotic | The features of an environment that are alive or were once alive.
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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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| Commensalism | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected.
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| Community | All the populations of all species living in an ecosystem.
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| Consumer | Organism that cannot make its own energy-rich molecules, but obtains its energy by eating other organisms.
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| Decomposer | Organism that breaks down once living matter into simple, energy-rich substances.
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| Ecology | The study of the interactions that occur among organisms and their environments.
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| Ecosystem | All of the organisms living in an area, as well as the nonliving parts of that environment.
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| Energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level in an ecosystem.
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| Habitat | The place in which an organism lives.
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| Limiting factor | Anything that restricts the number of individuals in a population.
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| Mutualism | A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.
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| Niche | An organism’s role in its environment. (ex how it obtains food, shelter, avoids danger…)
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| Nitrogen fixation | Process in which some types of bacteria in the soil change nitrogen gas into a form of nitrogen that plants can use.
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| Parasitism | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits but the other is harmed.
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| Population | All of the organisms of the same species that live in an area at the same time.
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| Producer | Organism that uses an outside energy source like the sun to make energy-rich molecules.
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| Symbiosis | Any close relationship between species.
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