Quarter 3 Test 2 Vocab

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Events in an ecosystem where organisms transfer energy by being eaten.

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Food Chain

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Decomposer: Organism that breaks down biotic wastes and dead organisms, returning raw materials to soil and water.

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Organism that gets energy by breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returns raw materials to the soil and water.

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Nonliving parts of an ecosystem are called

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abiotic factors

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Pattern of overlapping feeding relationships in an ecosystem

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Food Web

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A group of similar organisms that can mate.

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species

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An environment providing what an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.

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Habitat

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Births per 1000 individuals in a time period

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Birth Rate

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Environmental factor causing population decrease

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Limiting factor

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All members of one species in the same area

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Population

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Uncontrolled fire in vegetation over 1.8m (6ft)

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Wildfire