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| an organism that can make its own food; i.e. a plant |
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| an organism that gets its energy (food) by eating another organism. |
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| an animal that only eats plants |
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| an animal that eats animals |
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| an animal that eats both plants and animals |
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| a carnivore that eats dead animals |
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| an organism that breaks down waste and dead animals |
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| a series of events in which one organism eats another to get energy |
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| overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
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| a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
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| the process in which water moves from the Earths surface to the atmosphere and back in a repeating cycle. |
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| when a gas changes into a liquid; i.e. water vapor condensing into a cloud. |
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| rain, sleet, snow or hail |
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| the movement of organisms from one place to another |
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| the weather in an area over a long period of time. |
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| a change in the body or behavior of a species making it easier to survive. i.e. poisonous jellyfish, camouflage bugs, protective shell, etc.) |
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| the job an organism in its environment. i.e. plants produce oxygen, bacteria decompose waste, hawks control mice population, etc. |
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| the struggle for survival between living things for the limited resources. |
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| an animal that hunts and eats other animals; i.e. lions are the predators of zebras |
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| an animal that is hunted or eaten by other animals; i.e. mice are the prey of cats |
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| two organisms living together. There are three kinds of symbiosis: mutualism, commensalism and parasitism. |
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| a kind of symbiosis in which both organisms help each other (bees getting pollen from flowers; helps the flower pollinate and bee can make honey) |
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| commensalism is a kind of symbiosis in which one organism benefits without harming the other (bird builds nest in a tree to protect itself from ground animals, three not harmed) |
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| Parasitism is a kind of symbiosis in which one organisms gains and the other is harmed (tick on dog) |
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| the organism that benefits by living off of another organism (tick) |
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| the organism that a parasite lives off of and harms |
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| a series of changes that occur in a community over time; i.e. a field becomes a forest over time |
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| an environment that provides the things an organism needs to live. |
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| a living part of an organisms habitat. i.e. grass, plants, seeds, fruit, worms, bacteria, other animals |
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| a non-living part of an organisms habitat. i.e. water, sunlight, oxygen, temperature, soil |
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