Ecology

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What is a food chain?

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A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.

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What is an organism?

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An individual belonging to a specific species.

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What is symbiosis?

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A relationship in which two species live closely together.

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What is parasitism?

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A relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another, such as a flea feeding on a mouse's blood.

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What is a food web?

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A diagram that shows all the possible eating interactions; it shows overlapping food chains.

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What is biodiversity?

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The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

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What is an omnivore?

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An organism that eats both plants and animals.

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What is competition in ecology?

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The struggle between organisms for the same resources in an ecosystem.

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What is carrying capacity?

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The maximum number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.