The study of living things within the environment.
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What is an ecosystem?
A community of organisms and their surroundings- the environment in which they live.
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What is a habitat?
Refers to the place where an organism lives. There is no precise definition but the term is useful.
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What is an ecological niche?
This describes not only where a species lives but all of its activities, such as feeding, its predators and how it interacts with the non-living environment around it.
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What does a niche identify?
The precise conditions a species need.
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What gives something a different niche?
They most likely avoid competition.
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What is an adaptation?
Is the process by which organism becomes fitted to its environment.
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What can adaptations be?
Physiological, Anatomical
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What are physiological adaptations?
Are those which are the results of changes to the metabolism of the organism which are advantageous to survival in their particular habitat, such as the
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What is an ecosystem?
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A community of organisms and their surroundings- the environment in which they live.
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