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Ecology Expert
Learning Vocab words of Ecology Expert
Term | Definition |
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Semiarid | Very little annual rainfall about usually form 10 to 20 inches of rainfall (25 to 50 cm) |
Taiga | the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America. |
Biotic | Relation to life |
Abiotic | physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms. |
Trophic levels | Any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. |
Mutualism | the way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other |
Commensalism | a class of relationships between two organisms where one organism benefits from the other without affecting it |
Parsitism | non-mutual relationship between species, where one species, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host |