Organisms And Enviorments Flashcards

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Ecology

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Study of how organisms interact with other organisms and the nonliving parts of their environment

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Organism

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Any living thing

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Ecosystem

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System made of all organisms and nonliving components of an environment

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Biosphere

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Part of earth in which all life exists

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Population

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Members of he same species of an organism In an environment

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Community

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2 or more populations of species of organisms that share the same environment

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Producers

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Organisms that make their own food

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Consumers

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Organisms that eat other organisms to gain energy

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Herbivore

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Consumers that eat only plants

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Carnivore

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Eats only meat from other animals

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Omnivore

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Eats plants and animals

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Scavenger

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Eats remains of organisms left by other animals

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Decomposers

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Get food from waste and dead remains of other organisms

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Habitat

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Space where species population lives

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Niche

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Specific role an organism plays within its habitat

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Symbiosis

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Close relationship between different organisms species

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Mutualism

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Both species benefit from a relationship

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Commensalism

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Organism benefits while other organism is unaffected

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Parasitism

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Parasite feeds off of tissues, cells, or fluids of another organism or host

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Parasite

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Organism that lives inside another organism

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Extinction

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End of all members of a species

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Endangered species

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Species in immediate danger of becoming extinct

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Threatened species

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Species that may eventually face extinction