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| Ecosystem | a place where living and non-living things interact |
| Biotic | Living Factors in the environment |
| Abiotic | Non-living factors in the envirnoment |
| Species | An organism capable of producing fertile young |
| population | Species living together in the same area |
| community | Where different populations interact |
| Basic Needs | Water, food, energy, oxygen, suitable living conditions |
| Nutrients | Proteins, carbos, fats, vitamins, minerals |
| Symbiosis | A relationship where at least one organism benefits |
| Commensalism | One benefits one is unharmed |
| Mutualism | Both benefit |
| Parasitism | One benefits and one is harmed |
| Adaptation | An organism that has survived to reproduce in a new environment |
| Consumer | Seeks out food |
| Producer | Makes its own food |
| Herbivore | Eats Plants |
| Carnivore | Eats Meat |
| Omnivore | Eats meat and plants |
| Photosynthesis | the process of making sugars from the suns rays |
| cellular respiration | breaking down of sugars using oxygen and producing co2 and water |
| Scavengers | Eats dead and decaying plant and animal matter |
| decomposer | Breaks down plant and animal matter into simple products |
| Food Chain | one feeding relationship |
| Food Web | Many or all feeding relationship in an environment |
| Water cycle | precipitation, evaporation, condensation |
| Carbon Cycle | Carbon becomes fuel and carbon dioxide is processed into oxygen |
| bioinvasion | Introduction of a new species into a new environment |
| Competition | when 2 species (same or different) competye for the same space or food source |
| Predation | One predator kills and consumes another animal (prey) |
| successsion | Predictable pattern of change in an ecosystem |
| Primary succession | formation of a new community where none existed before |
| Secondary succession | the growth of a community after a natural disaster or occurence |
| Pioneer species | the first species that arrive (plant or animal) after a primary or secondary succession |
| Climax community | stable community formed that is not easily replaced |
| Extinct | Eliminated from planet |
| Endangered | so rare that they are close to extinction |
| Threatened | Seriously declining numbers |
| ecological footprint | energy and matter used each day by an individual |
