Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| environment | The surroundings in which an organism lives, which provide the specific things an organism needs.
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| biotic | Relating to the living parts of an environment.
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| abiotic | Relating to the nonliving parts of the environment.
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| habitat | The part of an environment in which an organism lives.
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| population | Organisms of the same species living together in the same environment.
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| community | The populations living in the same environment at the same time.
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| ecosystem | A community and the abiotic parts of its environment.
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| niche | The role an organism plays in an ecosystem.
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| biome | A region of the world that is defined by its climate and the unique plants and animals that live there.
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| deciduous forest | A biome in which the dominant plants are broad-leaved trees that shed their leaves each fall.
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| grassland | A biome where the dominant plants are grasses.
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| taiga | A biome where winters are very cold and long and the dominant plants are conifers.
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| evaporation | The change of water from liquid water to water vapor.
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| water cycle | The movement of water through Earth's ecosystem.
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| transpiration | The process by which plants lose water to the air.
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| condensation | The process by which water vapor changes from a gas to a liquid.
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| precipitation | The process by which water returns to Earth's surface, usually as rain or snow.
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| groundwater | Water that soaks into the ground.
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| carbon cycle | The flow of carbon dioxide and oxygen through Earth's ecosystems.
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| nitrogen cycle | The movement of nitrogen through ecosystems.
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| reusable resources | Resources that can be used again and again.
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| renewable resources | Resources that can be replaced within a human life span.
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| nonrenewable resources | Resources that cannot be replaced within a human lifespan.
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