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How do biotic and abiotic factors influence an ecosystem?
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Determine survival and growth of organisms as well as environment
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What interactions occur within communities?
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Competition, Predation, and symbiosis
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What is ecological succession
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Series of predictable changes that occur over time within a community
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Biotic factor
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Biological factors on organisms within an ecosystem
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Abiotic factor
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Physical or non living factors that shape ecosystems
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Habitat
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The area where an organism lives
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Niche
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Range of things the organism lives in and how it utilizes/ interacts with them
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Resource
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Any necessity of life
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Competitive exclusion principle
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No two species can occupy the same Niche in the same habitat at the same time
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Predation
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One organism captures and feeds on another organism
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Symbiosis
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Relationship which two species live closely together
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Mutualism
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Symbiosis, Both species benefit from the relationship
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Commensalism
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Symbiosis, One species benefits the other isnt harmed or helped
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Parasitism
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Symbiosis, One organism lives on or inside the other, and harms it while it has gain
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Ecological succession
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Series of predictable events changing things in the environment
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