| A | B |
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| ecosystem | living and non-living items in an area |
| carrying capapcity | the largest number of organisms an ecosystem can support |
| community | all the populations in an ecosystem |
| population | all members of a single species |
| mutualism | beneficial relationship in which both species would die if ended |
| parasitism | relationship in which one species lives off another |
| autotroph | species that create their own food |
| heterotroph | species that get energy from other species |
| commensalism | relationship in which one species is helped the other unaffected |
| limiting factor | item that stops population growth |
| biodiversity | the number of different species in an ecosystem |
| herbivore | species that only eat plants |
| carnivore | species that only eat animals |
| omnivore | species that eat both plants and animals |
