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Producer

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An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals

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Consumer

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An organism the eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food

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Predictor

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An animal that hunts and eats another animal

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Prey

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An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

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Species

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A group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can mate with each other and produce offsprings

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Community

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

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Biodiversity

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That many different types of life exist in an environment

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Biosphere

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That part of earth in which life can exist

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Food chain

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A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

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Food web

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A model that shows different feeding relationships among other living things

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Habitat

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A location in which an organism lives

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Biome

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A mojo ecological community such as grasslands, rain forest,or desert

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Ecosystem

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All living and no living things in one area that interact with each other

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Niche

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A place or role that an organism has in its habitat

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Mutualism

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

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Parasitism

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A certain type of non mutual relationship found between two different species in which one known as the parasite benefits at the expense of the other organism

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Bacteria fixing

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Single- celled organism without nucleus

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Lightning fixing

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A large discharge of electricity through the air that balances a different in a electric charge between one cloud or another or between clouds and the ground

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Populations

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A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area

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Symbiosis

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The living together of two dissimilar organisms as in mutualism, commensalism,or parasitism

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Commensalism

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