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Ecosystems Vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |