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Ecosystems/Biome
Lesson Vocabulary Review
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The living things in an environment | biotic factors |
All non-living things in an environment | abiotic factors |
The living and nonn-living things in an environment, and all of their interactions | ecosystem |
The home of an organism | habitat |
all members of a species that live in an ecosystem | population |
all populations in an ecosystem | community |
One of Earth's large ecosystems, with its own kind of climate, soil, and living things | biome |
A biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each autumn | deciduous forest |
A sandy or rocky biome with very little rainfall | desert |
A biome where grasses are the main plant life | grassland |
A cool forest biome of conifers found in the upper northern hemisphere | taiga |
A hot, humid forest biome near the equator, with much rainfall and a wide variety of organisms | tropical rain forest |
A large, treeless biome where the ground is frozen all year | tundra |