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biolgy-ecology
Vocabulary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | the study of the interactions among living things and between living things and their sorroundings. |
| community | a group of different species that live together in one life |
| Ecosystem | all the organism as well as the nonliving things in the area |
| Biome | a major regional or global area of organism characterized by certain climates and species |
| Biotic Factor | all living things in an ecosystem |
| Abiotic Factor | non-living things |
| Biodiversity | the assortment or variety of living things in an ecosystem |
| Keystone Species | a species that has an unusally large effect on the ecosystem |
| Grassland | an area where the primay plant life is grass |
| Desert | abiome that receives less tahn 10 inches of percipitation in a year and is very dry |
| Decidous Forest | a biome with hot summers, cold winters and the tress drop their leaves in the winter |
| Conigeras Forest | a biome with tress that ratain their needles all year and has one long rainy season |
| Taiga | located in cooler climates where winters are long and cold |
| Tundra | located beyong the taigas in far northern area |
| Chaporral | hot, dry summers and cool most winters also called shrubland |
| Tropical Rain Forest | a bimoe with year around warm temperatures and abundant rainfall |