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What is matter?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
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What is energy?
It is the ability to cause change.
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What are biotic and abiotic factors?
They are the living and nonliving parts of the environment.
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What is mass?
The amount of matter in an object.
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What are the two types of energy?
Two types are potential and kinetic.
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What is a population?
A group of individuals of the same species in the same area.
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What is volume?
The amount of space an object occupies.
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What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed.
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What is a community?
This is composed of all the species that live and interact in an area.
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What is chemical potential energy?
This is the energy stored in the bonds between the atoms that make up an object or substance.
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What is a niche?
The role a specific population plays in the ecosystem.
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What is mechanical energy?
M.E. = K.E. + P.E.
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What is a mutualism?
A type of symbiotic relationship in which both orgnaisms benefit.
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