Ecology

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Ecology

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The study of plants,animals and their environment and the relationship between them

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Environment

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Everything that surrounds an animal or plant

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Habitat

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The place where a plant or animal live

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Community

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Each habitat has its on community of organisms. Community is all the different populations that live in the habitat

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Interdependence

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Is how organisms depend on each other for their survival

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Ecosystem

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All the plants and animals in an area interacting with each other in their environment

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Biome

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An ecosystem that expands over a very large area is called a biome

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Biosphere

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All of Earths ecosystem together for one large ecosystem known as the biosphere

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Producer

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Plants that make their own food

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Consumer

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Animals that get their food and by eating plants or other animals

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Herbivore

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An animal that eats plants only

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Carnivore

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An animal that only eat other animals

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Omnivore

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An animal that eats both meat and plants

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Decomposer

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Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals

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Competition

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This occurs when two or more organisms seek a resource that is limited

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Adaptations

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Features that give an organism a better chance of surviving in a new habitat

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Abiotic and biotic factors

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Plants and animals affected by living and non-living factors in their environment

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Abiotic factors

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Abiotic factors are non living factors e.g. weather, soil and type of landscape

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Biotic factors

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Living competition, predation & symbiosis