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Ecology vocab words

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a living thing   show
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an environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce   show
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a living part of an organism's habitat   show
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show abiotic factor  
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show photosynthesis  
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a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce   show
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all members of one species in a particular area   show
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all the different populations that live together in an area   show
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show ecosystem  
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show ecology  
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show estimate  
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show birth rate  
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the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time   show
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moving into a population   show
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show emigration  
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the number of individuals in an area of a specific size   show
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an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease   show
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the largest population that an area can support   show
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a process by which characteristics that make an individual better suited to its environment become more common in a species   show
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show adaptations  
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the role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living   show
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the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use to same limited resource   show
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show predation  
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the organism that does the killing in a predation interaction   show
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an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism   show
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show symbiosis  
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a relationship between two species in which both species benefit   show
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show commensalism  
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a relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it   show
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the organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction   show
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show host  
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show succession  
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show primary succession  
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the first species to populate an area   show
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show secondary succession  
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