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| What is an ecosystem? | consists of all the organisms living in that area, as well as the non-living parts of that environment
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| What are abiotic factors? | non-living things in an ecosystem
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| What are biotic factors? | living things in an ecosystem
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| What are herbivores? | a type of consumer that eats only plants
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| What are carnivores? | a type of consumer that eats only animals
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| What are omnivores? | a type of consumer that eats both plants and animals
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| What is the role of decomposers? | they break down dead plants and animals and then turn them back into soil
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| How does the transfer of energy work in a food chain? | an arrow points from the organism being eaten to the organism doing the eating
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| What are species? | an individual organism; do not breed with other individuals from other groups
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| What is a population? | a group of species that live in a specific geographic area at a given time
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| What is a community? | all populations living in an area
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| What is a biome? | a set of ecosystems in a geographic area
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| Explain competition in an ecosystem. | this is the attempt of organisms to obtain a resource that is available in a limited supply
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| What is a niche? | the role of the species in an ecosystem including where it lives and feeds
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| What is an adaptation? | characteristics that help an organism survive
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| how is competition reduced? | organisms have different or multiple ways of obtaining nutrients
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| What biome do we live in? | temperate forest
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| What is the water cycle? | demonstrates how water moves through the atmosphere and returns to the earths surface
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| what would happen if a drought reduced number of plants in a forest area? | drought-->producers die-->less food for primary consumers--> possible starvation and dying out
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| What are the 5 biomes? | ocean, ocean ( wetlands), temperate forests, desert, grasslands
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| What is the nitrogen cycle? | the process of nitrogen being fixed, used by plants and animals, and later returned to the atmosphere
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| What is nitrogen fixation? | changing nitrogen from air into more usable, compound, form
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| What is the role of decomposers in the nitrogen cycle? | bacteria whose function is to fix nitrogen, converting it, so plants can use it
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| What is the carbon cycle? | the movement of carbon, in its many forms, between the biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and geosphere
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| mutualism | A relationship between two organisms where both are helped
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| commensalism | A relationship between two organisms where one is helped, and the other didn’t help or harm
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| parasitism | A relationship between two organisms where one is helped and the other harmed
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| ocean | water- colder at bottom
tropical parts
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| temperate forest | no dry season- this is where we live
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| ocean wetlands | cool summers, warm winters- increased precipitation
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| desert | extreme temperatures and little rainfall; deserts can be hot or cold, think cactus,
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| grassland | large range temperatures from below freezing to 100-often connects forests to deserts
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