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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Word ecosystem habitat biotic factors abiotic factors population community ecology population density immigration emigration limiting factor carrying capacity niche competition 15 predator 16 prey 17 symbiosis 18 mutualism 19 commensalism 20 parasitism 21 scavenger 22 decomposer 23 food chain 24 food web 25 energy pyramid Definition all the living and nonliving things that interact in an area the place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs living parts of an ecosystem nonliving parts of an ecosystem all the members of one species in a particular area all the different populations that live together in an area the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment the number of individuals in a specific area moving in to a population leaving a population an environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing the largest population that an area can support an organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living the struggle between organisms for the limited resources in a habitat a carnivore that hunts and kills other animals for food and has adaptations that help it capture the animals it preys upon an animal that a predator feeds upon a close relationship between 2 organisms in which at least one of the organisms benefits a type of symbiosis in which both partners benefit from living together a relationship between 2 species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed a relationship in which one organism lives on or in another and harms it a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms an organism that breaks down large chemicals from dead organisms into smaller chemicals and returns important materials to soil and water a series of events in which one organism eats another the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web Synonym interaction home living nonliving one species all species ecosystem science how many in out prevent growth maximum support job fight hunter victim relationship both help 1 help 1 hurt vulture bacteria chain web pyramid 26 nitrogen fixation 27 biome 28 nitrogen cycle 29 nocturnal 30 diurnal 31 tundra 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 desert grassland forest marine primary consumer secondary consumer tertiary consumer trophic level 40 detritus changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms the process by which nitrogen (a nutrient essential for plant growth) is changed from one form to another; removed from the air and fixed into the soil for biological use active at night active during the day a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life an area populated by grasses that gets 25 to 75 cm of rain each year a broad term used to describe areas where there are a large number of trees an area covered by salt water/oceans an animal that feeds on plants a carnivore that feeds only upon herbivores a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores the position an organism occupies in a food chain dead particulate organic material; typically includes the bodies or fragments of dead organisms as well as fecal material nutrient geography nutrients night day Alaska Arizona Kansas trees ocean herbivore 3rd tropic level 4th tropic level energy pyramid waste