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Population
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Total number of organisms in any area.
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Species
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A class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities.
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Food web
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Any feeding relationships in a habitat.
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Biodiversity
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Diversity among and within plants and animals species in an environment.
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Symbiosis
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A close relationship between organisms in which at least one of the organisms benefits.
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Parasitism
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A relationship between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
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Competition
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The act of competing for resources and survival.
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Mutualism
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A type of symbiosis which both partners benefit from living together.
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Commensalism
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Type of relationship between two species of a plant animal and fungus in which one lives with or on or in another without damage to either of the organisms.
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Predation
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The act of one organism preying on another.
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Photosynthesis
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The process of plants and some other organisms capturing energy from the sun to make food.
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Heterotroph
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An organism that can’t make it’s own food.
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Autotroph
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An organism that makes it’s own food.
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Abiotic
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Characterized by the absence of life or living organism.
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Biotic
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Pertaining to life.
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Habitat
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The place where an organism lives and where it obtains all the things it heads to survive.
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Niche
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a specific function or way of life for an organism
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Trophic Level
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Any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain as a primary consumer secondary consumer and a tertiary consumer.
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Energy
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The capacity for activity or available power.
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Digestion
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The process that breaks down complex molecules of food into smaller molecules.
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Respiration
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The act of inhalation of oxygen for energy use.
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Molecules
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A particle made of two or more atoms bonded together.
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Cell
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The basic unit of structure and function in living things.
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Plant cell
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Eukaryotic cells that contain cell walls and large vacuoles
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Animal Cell
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Cells that are enclosed by plasma membrane and have many organelles.
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Organelles
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A tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function within the cell.
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Prokaryote
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An organism whose cells lack a nucleus and some other cell structures.
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Eukaryotic
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Complex cell or cells in which there are many organelles.
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