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merkertffms on September 21, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ecology | the study of living things and their environments |
| environment | everything that surrounds a living thing |
| interact | to act upon eachother |
| community | all populations that live in a certain place |
| ecosystem | living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions |
| population | group of the same kind of organism living in a certain place |
| habitat | place where an organism lives |
| niche | organism's role, or job, in its habitat |
| cell | basic unit of structure and function in living things |
| organism | any living thing |
| response | reaction to a change |
| adaptation | trait of a living thing that helps it live in its environment |
| environment | everything that surrounds a living thing |
| digestion | process of breaking down food so that it can be used by living things |
| excretion | process of getting rid of wastes |
| ingestion | process of taking in food |
| respiration | process of getting energy from food |
| transport | process of moving nutrients and wastes in a living thing |
| homeostasis | the ability of a living thing to keep conditions inside its body constant |
| biotic | living |
| abiotic | non-living |
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