ECOLOGY REVIEW
Terms
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- no longer existing
- extinct
- an area that an animal defends from others of the same species
- territory
- the number of organisms born druing a given time period
- birth rate
- the way a species lives; its job
- niche
- the place where an organism lives and finds food, water and shelter
- habitat
- all of the individuals of the same kind in a certain place
- population
- a single living organism
- individual
- the series of changes that naturally takes place in a community over time
- succession
- all of the populations in an ecosystem
- community
- the study of relationships among living and non-living things
- ecology
- organisms that produce their own energy; another name for plants
- producers
- the final stage of succession in a community
- climax community
- a community and its physical environment
- ecosystem
- the number of organisms that die during a given period of time
- death rate
- the first stage of succession
- pioneer stage
- a species in danger of disappearing from the earth because so few are left
- endangered species