8.11ABC VOCABULARY QUIZ

A community of organisms and their abiotic, or non living, environment

• ecology

• ecosystem

• biocentrism

• biotic factor

The study of the interactions of livng organisms with one another and with their environment

• ecology

• ecosystem

• biology

• philosophy

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An environmental factor that is not associated with the activities of living organisms

• biome

• biotic

• abiotoic

• parasitism

An environmental factor that is associated with or results from the activites of living organisms.

• abiotic

• parasitism

• decomposer

• biotic

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a group of organisms of the same species that live ina specific geographical area.

• community

• population

• parasitism

• predator

all of the populations of a species that live in the same habitat and interact with eachother

• community

• decomposer

• food web

• parasitism

an organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings

• consumer

• producer

• abiotic factor

• redshift

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an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• prey

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an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• biologist

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an organism that kills and eats all or part of another organism

• food web

• consumer

• predator

• prey

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