Unit 11: Ecology Vocab Flashcard

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Excess nutrients in water

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Eutrophication

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Not harmful to the environment or depleting resources

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Sustainability

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Relationship where both organisms benefit

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Mutualism

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Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

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parasitism

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Organism that eats only plants

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Herbivore

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Organism that eats only meat

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carnivore

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Organism that eats meat and plants

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omnivore

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Type of behavior acquired through experience or practice

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learned

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Type of behavior hardwired through genetics

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innate

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Amount of biological matter in an area

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biomass