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19 Cards in this Set
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community |
group of living things of different species found in an ecosystem |
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climate |
normal pattern of weather that occurs in an area over a long period of time |
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tundra |
Earth's coldest biome |
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food chain |
description of how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another |
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population |
all the members of the same type of organism living in an ecosystem |
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desert |
a biome that is very dry |
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tropical rainforests |
forests in regions that are very hot and very rainy |
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food web |
a description of all the food chains in an ecosystem |
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ecosystem |
all the living and nonliving things that interact with one another in a given area |
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taiga |
a biome that has long, severe winters and short, cool summer |
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biome |
large group of similar ecosystems |
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grasslands |
land covered by grasses with few trees |
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temperate forests |
forests that experience four distinct seasons: summer, fall, winter, and spring |
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hypothesis |
an educated guess; a statement that can be proven true or false |
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variable |
any factor that can be controlled, changed, or measured in an experiment |
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conclusion |
a final statement that describes what you learned from the experiment and results |
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experiment |
an activity that is used to test if your hypothesis is true or false |
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data |
the results of the experiment |
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problem/question |
the first part of the scientific process |
