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ecosystem vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic factors | The living parts of a ecosystem |
| Abiotic factors | Nonliving things in ecosystems examples: soil, water, temperature, and sunlight |
| Organisms | A single form of life; the simplest form of organization in ecolagy |
| Population | All members of one kind of organism that live in a particular area |
| Communities | A group of different populations of organism |
| Ecosystem | A collection of different communities and abiotic factors |
| Deforestation | the clearing of forest land |
| Ecology | The study of interactions between living things and their environment |
| Tropical Rain Forest | In this biome, earth receives sunlight most of the year, so temperatures are |