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What type of environmental factors are living e.g. new predators arriving |
Biotic |
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What type of environmental factors are non-living e.g. temperature |
Abiotic |
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What are all the organisms of one species living in a habitat called |
Population |
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What are the populations of different species living in a habitat called |
Community |
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The features or characteristics of organisms that allow them to live in the conditions of their natural environments are called |
Adaptations |
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What type of organisms are adapted to live in seriously extreme conditions like hot volcanoes |
Extremophiles |
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What do food chains always start with |
Producer |
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Name the group of consumers that eat the secondary consumers in a food chain |
Tertiary |
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What can you use to measure how common an organism is in a sample area |
Quadrat |
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What are the lines that you can use to find out how an organism in distributed across an area |
Transect |
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Water evaporates from plants. This is known as |
Transpiration |
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What process removes carbon from the air in the carbon cycle |
Photosynthesis |
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Decay combustion and what other process returns carbon to the atmosphere |
Respiration |
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What word describes the variety of different species of organisms on earth or within an ecosystem |
Biodiversity |
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Name the 2 main greenhouse gases |
Carbon dioxide Methane |
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Increasing levels of greenhouse gases are contributing to an increase in the average global what |
Tenperature |
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One consequence of global warming is the melting of the polar ice caps. What problem does this cause |
Sea level rise |
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Increasing amounts of waste causes pollution of the land sea and what |
Air |
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What is the cutting down of forests called |
Deforestation |
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In some areas programmes have been set up by concerned citizens and scientists to minimise damage by human activities to ecosystems and biodiversity. What are these programmes called |
Protection programmes |
