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Define Ecology
The scientific study of living things and there enviornment
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Define Species
A group of the same organisims that can produce fertile offspring
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define population
a group of the same living things in one area
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define community
A group of diffrent living things in one area
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Define Ecosystem
a group of organisims in a certain plae with non-living organsims
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Define Biome
A group of ecosystems with the same climate and communites
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define biosphere
a part of the earth where theres life
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define autotroph
An organsim that obtains food through photosynthesis
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Define Herbivore
plant eater
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Define Carnivore
Meat Eater
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Omnivore
eats meet and plants
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Define Chemosythetic
when organsims obtain energy from chemicals
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Define Decompsoers
they all eat dead animals, or non-living things
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Define producer
anything that can make its own food
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Define Photosynthesis
(especially in plants) the synthesis of complex organic materials,especially carbohydrates, from carbon dioxide, water, andinorganic salts, using sunlight as the source of energy and withthe aid of chlorophyll and associated pigments.
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Define Biomass
The amount of living matter
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Define Heterotroph
Cant make there own food, they have to eat other organsims to obtain energy
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what are the steps in the water cycle?
Evaporation, condensation, percipitation, runoff, seepage
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Define Denitrification
when you remove nitrogen from the atmosphere and pass it through the ecosystems
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Why is it important for materials needed in life like water, carbon etc. to be recycled?
Recycling the materials is imporatant because if you dont recycle eventually we will run out.
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