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| ecology | What is the study of the interactions of living things with one another and their environment? |
| biotic | What describes living factors in the environment? |
| abiotic | What describes the nonliving part of the environment, including water, rocks, light and temperature? |
| population | What is a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geological area? |
| community | What consists of all of the populations of a species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other? |
| ecosystem | What is a community of organisms and their abiotic or nonliving environment? |
| biosphere | What is the part of the Earth where life exists? |
| herbivore | What is an organism that ONLY EATS PLANTS? |
| carnivore | What is an organism that ONLY EATS ANIMALS? |
| omnivore | What is an organism that EATS PLANTS AND ANIMALS? |
| food chain | What is the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms? |
| food web | What is a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem? |
| energy pyramid | What is a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes trough the ecosystem's food chain? |
| carrying capacity | What is the largest population that an environment can support at any given time? |
| prey | What is an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism? |
| predator | What is an organism that eats all or part of another organism? |
| coevolution | What is the evolution of two species that is due to a mutual influence, often in a way that makes the relationship more beneficial to both species? |
| mutualism | What is a relationship between two species in which both species benefit? |
| commensalism | What is a relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected? |
| parasitism | What is a relationship between two species in which one species, the parasite, benefits from the other species, the host, which his harmed? |
| symbiosis | What is a relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other? |
