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Abiotic factors: The non living parts of an organisms environment
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Algae: Plantlike protista
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Binary fission: Bacteria reproduced asexually
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Biotic factors: All the living organisms that inhabit an environment
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Budding: A form of asexual reproduction in which mitosis occurs and a new individual pinches off from the parent, matures, and eventually separates from the parent
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Carnivore: Eat animals
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Carrying capacity: The number of organisms of one species that an environment can support idefentily
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Chemosynthesis: They break down and release the energy of inorganic compounds containing sulfur and nitrogen
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Ciliates: Use the cilia that cover their bodies to move
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Commensalism: the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it
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Decomposer: Break down the complex compounds of dead and decaying plants and animals ink similar molecules that can be more easily absorbed
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Ecological pyramid: Can how how energy flows through an ecosystem
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Ecosystem: Is made up of interacting populations in a biological community and the community's abiotic factors
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Flagellates: Have one or more Flagella
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Food chain: Is a simple model that scientists use to show how matter and energy move through an ecosystem
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Food web: ShoWs all the possible feeding relationships
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Herbivore: Feed on grass and other llants
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Lichen: Is a symbiotic association between a fungus, usually the ascomycote, an a photosynthetic green Alga or a cyanobacterium
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Limiting factors: Is any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms
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mutualism: the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent
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Mycorrhiza: A mutualistic relationship in which a fungus lives symbioticly with a plant
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Nitrogen fixation: Bacteria have enzymes that convert N2 into ammonia
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Obligate aerobes: Bacteria that requires oxygen or respiration
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Obligate anaerobes: Bacteria that is killed by oxygen
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Omnivore: Eats both plants and animals
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Parasitism: the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
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predation: the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
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Primary consumer: consumer that feeds directly on producers
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Producer/autotroph: An organism that uses light energy or energy stored in chemical compounds to make energy-rich compounds
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Protozoa: Animal like protists
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Secondary consumer: consumer that eats primary consumers
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symbiosis: the relationship in which there is a close and permanent associtation between organisms of different species
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Tertiary consumer: An organism that eats secondary consumers
