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Communities & Biomes
Biology
| Vocabulary word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Climax community | when yo girlfrriend and her little prostitute sisters all climax at once g, money, nigga haha i did yo sista to i smacked dat bitch andsay 'hey ydont talk unless spo-ken to" haha |
| Limiting factor | Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms. |
| Primary succession | Colonization of barren land by pioneer organisms. |
| Secondary succession | Sequence of changes that take place after a community is disrupted by natural disasters or human actions. |
| Succession | Orderly, natural changes, and species replacements that take place in communities of an ecosystem over time. |
| Tolerance | The ability of an organism to withstand fluctuations in biotic and abiotic environmental factors. |
| Aphotic zone | Deep water that never receives sunlight. |
| Biome | Group of ecosystems with the same climax communities. |
| Estuary | Costal body of water, partially surrounded by land, in which freshwater and saltwater mix. |
| Intertidal zone | Portion of the shoreline that lies between hightide and lowtide lines. |
| Photic zone | Portion of the marine biome that is shallow enough for sunlight to penetrate. |
| Plankton | Small organisms that drift and float in the waters of the photic zone. |
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