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Ecosystems vocab
Term | Definition |
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Biotic Factors | The living parts of an ecosystem |
Abiotic Factors | Nonliving parts of in ecosystems. Examples:soil, water, temparture, sunlight |
Organism | A single formof life ; the simplest form of organizanition in ecolgy |
Population | All members of one kind of organism that live in a particular area |
Communities | A group of different populations of organisms |
Ecosystems | 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 envireoments |