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Ecosystems Vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Biotic Factors | The living parts of an ecosystem |
Abiotic Factors | Nonliving things in ecosystems Examples: soil,water,tempature,sunlight |
Oranism | a single form of life;the simplest form of organization in ecology |
Population | all members of one kind of oranism that live in a particular area |
Communities | a group of different populations of organisms |
Ecosystem | a collection of different communities and the abiotic factors |
Deforestation | The clearing of forest lands |
Ecology | The study of interactions between living things and their enviornments |
Tropical Rain Forest | In this biome , Earth recives direct sunlight most of the year , so temeratures always warm. This climate is also very wet |
Biome | A large-scale ecosystem |
Desert |