Ecology

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The study of the relationships between organisms and between organisms and their physical environment

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Define ecology

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All members of a species living in a given location make up a

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Population

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All the interacting populations in a given area make up a

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Community

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All the members of a community along with the physical environment in which they live

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Ecosystem

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The portion of the earth in which all living things exist

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Biosphere

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The main source of earths energy

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Solar energy

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Nonliving factors

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Abiotic

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Living factors

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Biotic

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Factors of the environment such that are physical factors that sustain the lives and reproductive systems of organisms

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Abiotic

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Limiting factors

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Abiotic factors

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Factors of an ecosystem are all the living things that directly or indirectly affect the environment. The organisms of an ecosystem interact in many ways. These interactions include nutritional in symbiotic relationships

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Biotic factors

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The transfer of nutrients from one organism to another within the ecosystem

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Nutritional relationships

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These organisms can use energy from the environment to synthesize their own food from inorganic compounds

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Autotrophs

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These organisms cannot synthesize their own food and must obtain nutrients from other organisms

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Heterotrophs

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These organisms of 10 nutrients from the remains of dead organisms these include bacteria and fungi

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Saprophytes

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Animals that feed extensively on plants

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Herbivores

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Animals that consume other animals

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Carnivores

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Animals that consume both plant and animal

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Omnivores

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Early should ship in which one organism benefits while others neither helped nor harmed

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Commensalism

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A relationship in which both organisms

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Mutualism

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A relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is harmed

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Parasitism

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The transfer of energy from green plants there a series of organisms with repeated stages of eating and being eaten

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Food chain

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The maximum number of organisms of a particular type that can be supported in an area

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Carrying capacity

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The role that the species fills in its habitat it’s job

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Niche

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The replacement of one kind of community by another in an ecosystem

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Succession