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Ecosystems
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Term | Definition |
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abiotic | nonliving |
biome | collection of ecosystems with similar environments and organisms |
biotic | living |
community | all the interacting populations in a specified area |
controlled experiment | an experiment that the observer can standardize all but one variable to measure results |
ecosystem | a system of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specified |
ecosystem service | a benefit that humans obtain from the environment |
individual | one |
observational study | an experiment that the observer collects data over time without interacting with the area of study |
population study | an experiment that the observer collects data over time for one population in a ecosystem |