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Earth's Living Hist.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abiotic | Non-living |
| biotic | living |
| Climate | Overall weather in an area over a long period of time |
| convergent | when two plates come together |
| divergent | when two plates pull away from each other |
| Earthquakes | the sudden or violent shaking of the ground as a result of movements within the earth's crust |
| Ecosystem | A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment |
| Extinct | no longer existing |
| Fossil | The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past |
| Migration | A movement from one region to another |
| Organism | Any living thing |
| Populations | All the members of one species in a particular area |
| Reproduce | Produce offspring that are similar to the parents |
| shifting | when two plates slide past one another |
| Tectonic plates | large rock plates that make up earth's crust |
| Trace | a very small amount |