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100

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

Commensalism

100

 is the statistical process of selecting a subset of a population of interest for purposes of making observations and statistical inferences about that population.

Sampling

100

An environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing

Limiting Factor

100

Species that normally live and thrive in a particular ecosystem



native species

100

The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment

Ecology

200

Number of individuals per unit area

population density

200

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

food chain

200

An animal that hunts other animals for food


predator

200

An individual living thing




Organism

200

Living

Biotic

300

A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

food web

300

An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism

Prey

300

A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

Population

300

Non-Living

Abiotic

300

A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species.

Symbiosis

400

weather is short term, climate is a region's average weather over a long period of time

Climate vs. Weather

400

All the different populations that live together in an area

Community

400

part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere

Biosphere

400

A relationship between two species in which both species benefit

Mutualism

400

assessment in which the professional observes the client engaged in ordinary, day-to-day behavior in either a clinical or natural setting


direct observation

500

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Ecosystem

500

the movement of organisms from one place to another

dispersal

500

A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed

Parasitism

500

observing the effects or results of the behavior rather than the behavior itself

indirect observation

500

movement of individuals out of an area

Emigration

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