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Ecosystems
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | not living |
| Biome | collection of ecosystems that have similar environments and organisms |
| Biotic | living |
| community | all the interacting populations in a specified area |
| ecosystem | a system of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specified area |
| ecosystem service | a benefit that humans obtain from the environment |
| individual | a single organism |
| observational study | an experiment in which the observer collects data overtime without interacting with the area of study |
| population study | an experiment in which the observer collects data over time for one population in an ecosystem |