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What does Biotic mean?
Living
What does Abiotic mean?
Non-living
What does ecology mean?
It means the relations of organisms and their environment.
What does terrestrial mean?
What does marine mean?
What does mutualism mean?
What does Competition mean?
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What does Predation mean?
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What does Parasitism mean?
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What does Commensalism mean?
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What is a food web?
A complex chain of which animals eat what.
What is a food chain?
A simple food web
What does endangered mean?
In danger of going extinct.
Only lives in one place; native
What does invasive mean?
A species that migrates to a place and harms the existing ecosystem
What does threatened mean?
Close to endangered.
What does species mean?
A group of similar living organisms that can reproduce.
What does a population mean?
All the living inhabitants of an area.
What does a community mean?
A group of all living organisms in a place.
What does an ecosystem mean?
A community plus abiotic factors.
What animals are in the Chaparral?
Scrub Jays, Quails, etc.
What animals are in the Rocky Intertidal Zone?
Sea stars, Crustaceans, Barnacles, etc.
What animals are in the Kelp Forest?