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