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Unit C Chapter 1
Chapter 1 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An organisms surroundings in which it lives | environment |
| Living parts of the environment | biotic |
| Nonliving parts of the environment | abiotic |
| The part of an environment in which an organism lives | habitat |
| Organisms of the same species living together in the same environment | population |
| Populations living in the same environment at the same time | community |
| A community and the abiotic parts of its environment | ecosystems |
| The role of an organism in the ecosystem | niche |
| The movement of water through Earth's ecosystem | water cycle |
| The changing of of water from liquid to a vapor | evaporation |
| The changing of water vapor to a liquid | condensation |
| The return of water to the earths surface | precipitation |
| The way that plants return water to the air | transpiration |
| Precipitation that sinks into the ground | groundwater |
| The flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide through Earth's ecosystem | carbon dioxide- oxygen cycle |
| The movement of nitrogen through the ecosystem | nitrogen cycle |
| Resources that can be used again and again | reuseable resources |
| Resources that cannot be replaced within a humans life | nonrenewable resources |
| The saving natural resources | conservation |
| Resources that can be replaced in a human lifetime | renewable resource |