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42 Cards in this Set
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Ecosystem
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All the living and nonliving things in an environment
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Niche
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The role of an organism in a community.
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Community
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All the living things in an ecosystem. (More than one kind of species in an ecosystem)
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Population
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All the members of one species in an area
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Producer
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Any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that animals need.
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Consumer
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Any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals.
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Humus
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Decayed plant or animal material in soil.
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Habitat
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The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows.
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Biotic Factors
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A living part of an ecosystem.
( animals, plants, algae) |
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Abiotic Factos
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A nonliving part of an ecosystem.
(Clouds, sun, dirt, water) |
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Biome
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One of Earth's large ecosystems, with its own kind of climate, soil, plants, and animals.
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Tundra
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Large, treeless plain in the arctic regions, where the ground is frozen all year.
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Permafrost
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A layer of permanently frozen soil found in arctic and antarctic regions.
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Tropical Rain Forest
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A hot biome near the equator, with much rainfall and a wide variety of life.
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Grasslands
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A biome where grasses, not trees, are the main plant life. Prairies are one kind of grassland region
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Desert
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A sandy or rocky biome, with little precipitation and little plant life.
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Deciduous
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Means plants that lose their leaves each fall.
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Deciduous Forest
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A forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each autumn.
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Taiga
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A cool forest biome of conifers in the upper Northern Hemisphere. Glaciers created lakes and ponds in this biome.
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Weather
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What the lower atmosphere is like at any given place and time.
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Occluded Front
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When a warm front gets caught between two cold fronts.
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Warm front
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A front where warm air moves in over a cold air mass.
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Cold front
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A front where cold air moves in under a warm air mass.
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Air mass
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A large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout.
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Air pressure
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The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it.
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Stationary Front
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A front that is stalled out and does not move.
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Tornado
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A violent, whirling wind that mvoes across the ground in a narrow path.
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Hurricane
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A very large, swirling strom with very low pressure at the center. It is formed over warm, tropical water.
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Storm Surge
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A great rise of the sea along a shore caused by low air pressure.
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Cirrus Clouds
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A high altitude cloud with a featherlike shape, made of ice crystals.
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Stratus Clouds
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A cloud that forms in a blanketlike layer.
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Cumulous Clouds
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A puffy cloud that appears to rise up from a flat bottom.
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Cumulonimbus Clouds
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A cloud that develops upward. They bring thunderstorms.
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Water cycle
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The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas and back to liquid.
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The parts of the Water cycle.
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Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, runoff
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Evaportation
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The slow changing of a liquid into a gas.
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Condensation
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The changing of a gas into a liquid.
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Precipitation
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Any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
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Types of precipitation
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Rain, Snow, Sleet, and Hail
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Runoff
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Precipitation that flos across the land's surface or falls into rivers and streams.
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Sea Breeze
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Wind that blows from the sea towards the land.
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Land Breeze
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Wind that blows from the land towards the sea.
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