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| A process where organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten. |
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| Links food to the things that eats it. |
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| Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment. |
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| contains the combined portions of the planet in which all of life exists.(land, water and air.) |
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| A group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring. |
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| Groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area. |
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| Assemblages of different populations that live together in a defined area. |
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| Collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonliving, or physical, environment. |
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| Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and similar dominant communities. |
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| Organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce food from inorganic compounds: also called an autotroph. |
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| Physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem. |
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| Organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds: also called a producer. |
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| Biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem. |
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| Organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter. |
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| Step in a food chain or food web. |
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| Diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter contained within each tropic level in a food chain or food web. |
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| The air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time |
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