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review of ecosystems and biomes

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individual   single organism in an environment  
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population   individuals of the same kind living in the same environment  
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community   all the populations of organisms living together in an environment  
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ecosystem   a community and its physical environment  
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habitat   place where a population lives  
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niche   each population's role  
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producers   plants that use sunlight to make the food they need from carbon dioxide and water  
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consumers   organisms in an ecosystem that must eat to get the energy they need  
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food chain   shows how the consumers in an ecosystem are connected to one another according to what they eat  
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decomposers   consumers that break down the tissues of dead organisms  
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food web   shows the relationships between many different food chains in a single ecosystem  
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energy pyramid   shows the amount of energy available to pass from one level of a food chain to the next  
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competition   contest among organisms for resources  
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symbiosis   a long-term relationship between different kinds of organisms  
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instinct   behavior that an organisms inherits  
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learned behaviors   behaviors animals learn from their parents  
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exotic   nonnative organisms  
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extinct   the last individual in the population dies  
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endangered   likely to become extinct  
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threatened   likely to become endangered  
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biome   large-scale ecosystem  
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climate zone   region in which yearly patterns of temperature, rainfall, and the amount of sunlight are similar throughout  
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tropical rain forest   found near the equator, always warm and rains nearly every day  
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deciduous forest   trees in this biome shed their leaves each year  
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grasslands   moderate temperatures, moderate rainfall and dominated by tall grasses, "breadbasket" of the world  
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desert   very dry biome with sandy soil  
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taiga   forest of needle-leaved evergreens  
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tundra   rolling plain with low temperatures and long winters  
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