| A | B |
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| Applied Science | Information provided by pure science to solve problems |
| Pure Science | Seeks to answer questions about how the natural world works |
| Natural resources | Any substance that living things use |
| Renewable resources | Continually being replaced, even as they are being used |
| Nonrenewable resources | Can't be replaced |
| Abiotic factors | Non-living parts of an ecosystem |
| Biotic factors | Living parts of an ecosystem |
| Adaptions | An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival and reproduction in a certain enviornment |
| Commensalism | Relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped |
| Competition | Relationship between species in which they attempt to use the same limited resources |
| Mutualism | Cooperation partnership between two species |
| Coevoltion | When two or more species evloved in response to each other |
| Extinction | Irreversable disappearance of a population or a species |
| Natural Selection | Unequal survival and reproduction that results from the presence or absence of particular traits |
| Evolution | A change in the genetic characteristics of populations from one generation to the next |
| Carnivore | Animalsthat only eats meat |
| Herbivore | Animals that only eat plants |
| Omnivore | Animals that eat both meat and plants |
| Trophic Level | Each step in the transfer of energy through an ecosystem |
| Producer | Organism that makes its own food |
| Consumer | Organism that get their energy by eating other organims |
| Decomposers | Consumers that get their own food by breaking down dead organisms |
| Succession | Regular pattern of changes over time in the types of species in a community |
| Secondary Succession | When succession occurs where an ecosystem has previously existed |
| Primary Succession | Succession occrus where no ecosystem existed |
