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Ecosystem Vocabulary❤️❤️ Flashcards

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Lightning fixing

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where gaseous nitrogen is attached to precipitation by lightning

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Predators

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a predator is an animal that hunts other animals for food

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producers

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Producers use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food for themselves.

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Consumers

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organisms that cannot make their own food and depend on plants or other animals for nourishment are called consumers

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Prey

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a prey is an animal that is hunted by other animals

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Species

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organisms that share the same characteristics and features belong to the same species

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Populations

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a population is made up of the same kind of organisms

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Community

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a group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment

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Biodiversity

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the wide variety of biological life on earth

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Biosphere

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the part of earth in which life can exist

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Food chain

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a model that shows one different feeding relationships among living things

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Food web

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a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

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Habitat

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a location in which an oraganism lives

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Ecosystem

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an ecosystem is a community of living things

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Biome

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a major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or a desert

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Niche

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the place or roll that an oraganism has in its habitat

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Symbiosis

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interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association

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Mutualism

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mutualism is a relationship between two species in which both benefit from the relationship

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Commensalism

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a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives with, on, or in the other without damage to either

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Parasitism

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a relationship in which one organism benefits at the host’s expense is called parasitism

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Bacteria fixing

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micro organisms in the soil

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