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an animal which feeds on dead organic material
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an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
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the variety of all living things and their interactions
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relating to or resulting from living things
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the match of a species to a specific environmental condition
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a species can thrive only in a narrow range of environmental conditions or has a limited diet
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an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
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the basic SI unit of energy
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organisms that make their own food
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the natural science of the relationships among living organisms
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an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
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the increase in concentration of a substance through the food chain
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matter that has come from a recently living organism
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interaction between organisms or species in which both require a resource that is in limited supply
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the primary component of macromolecules,
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kill, repel, or control forms of animal and plant life
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physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms
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the natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism
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the animal component of the planktonic community
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anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
