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21 Cards in this Set
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Light, heat or solar radiation, moisture, wind, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients in soil, water and atmosphere
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Physical environment
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Includes organisms of the same kind as well as other plants and animals
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Biological environment
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Group of interbreeding organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time
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Population
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What factors affect population
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Climate, nutrients, competition
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Group of populations living in the same area
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Community
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Basic units of ecology; interrelationships between the organisms in a community and their physical environment/abiotic factors
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Ecosystem
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Composed of all the regions of the earth that contain living things
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Biosphere
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Type of place where the organism usually lives in the ecosystem
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Habitat
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How organism "fits into" an ecosystem; describes all biotic and abiotic resources used by organism
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Niche
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Biotic factors = _____
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Living
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Abiotic factors = _____
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Nonliving
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Study of growth, abundance, and distribution
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Population ecology
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Niche of plants and other chlorophyll containing organisms; use photosynthesis
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Producers
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Niche of animals/organisms that consume producers or consumers; use cellular respiration
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Consumers
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Fungi and bacteria; break down stuff
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Decomposers/detritivores
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Regions of the biosphere that exhibit common environmental characteristics; occupied by unique communities or ecosystems of plants and animals
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Biomes
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Biome with high temperatures (25C)
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Tropical rain forests
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Biome with heavy rain fall
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Tropical rain forest
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Where are tropical rain forests located?
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Near the equator
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Grow on other plants, not in soil
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Epiphytes
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Biome - grasslands with scattered trees; tropical, high temp
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Savannahs
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