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Homework week of 5/8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | a single living thing |
| population | a group of organisms that are the same species |
| community | all the populations living in the same area |
| ecosystem | all biotic and abiotic factors in the same area |
| biosphere | all of the Earth that contain living organisms |
| prey | animal that is hunted |
| predator | animal that hunts for food |
| symbiosis | different species working together to survive |
| mutualism | both species benefit |
| commensalism | one benefits and one is neither helped or harmed |
| parasitism | one benefits while the other is hurt |
| cooperation | living things working together to survive |
| competition | living things working against each other to survive |
| habitat | specific are where an organism lives |
| terrestrial | land |
| aquatic | in water |
| adaptations | characteristics that makes an organism suited to its environment |
| niches | role an organism plays within an ecosystem |
| biome | geographic regions with similar biotic and abiotic factors |
| tundra | coldest biome |
| taiga | biome containing cone-bearing trees |
| deciduous forest | biome containing trees that shed their leaves once a year |
| tropical rain forest | biome that receives 200cm or more rain annually |
| grassland | biome that receives 25 to 75 cm of rain anually |
| desert | biome containing 25 cm or less rain annually |
| marine | aquatic biome containing saltwater |
| freshwater biome | lakes, pods, swamps, streams, and rivers |
| estuaries | biomes containing brackish water |