Ecology vocab

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Organisms' interactions with each other and the environment are called

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ecology

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Example of a parasitic relationship?

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A tapeworm takes nutrients from a dog.

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Barnacles grow on whales, providing no benefit or harm to the whale. Relationship type?

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Commensalism

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Fungi are a ________

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Decomposers

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Alligators have their teeth cleaned by birds, which get food from them. Type of symbiosis?

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Mutualism

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Abiotic factor in the photo?

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rain

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Type of organism that makes its own food?

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A producer (an autotroph)

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Nonliving parts of an ecosystem are called

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abiotic factors

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Role of an organism in an environment

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its niche

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Most energy available for use:

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at the bottom of the energy pyramid