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Ecosystems Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Biotic factors | The living parts of the Ecosystem |
Abiotic factors | Nonliving things in ecosystems are called abiotic factors Examples:soil,water,temperature,sunlight |
Organism | A single form of life; the simplest form of organization in ecology. |
Population | All members of one kind of organism that live in a particular area. |
Communities | A group of one kind of organism. |
Ecosystem | A collection of different communities and the abiotic factors. |
Deforestation | the clearing of forest land |
Ecology | the study of interactions between living and their environment |
Tropical Rain forest | in this biome, Earth receives direct sunlight most of the year, so temperature are always warm. The climate is also very wet |