ECOLOGY
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kmcmahon630 on October 17, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Species | group of organisms that can successfully breed |
| Organism | living thing |
| Ecosystem | living and nonliving in the same environment |
| community | group of different populations living together |
| biotic | living things |
| abiotic | nonliving things |
| autotrophs | able to make own food |
| heterotrophs | must ingest food |
| symbiosis | two species living very close together (dog and human) |
| competition | different species or same species using same resources |
| predation | one organism capturing another |
| mutalism | both organisms benefit (bee and flower) |
| commensalism | one organism is benefiting, there is no effect to the other. (shark and pilot fish) |
| parasitism | one organism benefits, the other is negatively effected. (tick and human) |
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