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Homework week of 5/8
Question | Answer |
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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 |