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31 Cards in this Set
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ecosystem
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all the living/nonliving things in an area interacting with eachother
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ecology
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the study of how living things interact w/eachother in an environment
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abiotic factor
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nonliving things part of an ecosystem
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biotic factor
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living parts of an ecosystem
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population
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all the organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time
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community
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all the populations in an area living and interacting w/eachother
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habitat
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an area where an organism lives
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niche
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the roll that an orgamism plays in its ecosystem
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Biome
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one of Earth's large ecosystem, with it'd climate, soil, plants, and animals
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Taiga
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a cool, forest biome of donifers in the upper northern hempiphere
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Tundra
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a cool, treeless, biome of far north marked by spongy topsoil
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desert
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a sandy ot rocky biome, with little plsnt life
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decsecious forest
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a forest biome w/many kinds og trees that loose their leaves in the autum
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Biome
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one of Earth's large ecosystem, with it'd climate, soil, plants, and animals
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Taiga
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a cool, forest biome of donifers in the upper northern hempiphere
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Tundra
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a cool, treeless, biome of far north marked by spongy topsoil
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desert
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a sandy ot rocky biome, with little plsnt life
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decsecious forest
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a forest biome w/many kinds og trees that loose their leaves in the autum
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timberline
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a region above the mt. slopes which tree cannot grow
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alpine tundra
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cold,dry, windy ecosystem found on high mt. tops.
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tide pools
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small pools of water that remain at low tide on rocky seashores
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holdfast
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a rootlike base that holds seaweed on the ocean floor in place.
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intertidal zone
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part of a seashore btw the lowest and highest tides
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food chain
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the path food follows as one orgainism eats plants
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food web
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overlapping food chains in a community
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herbivore
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an animal that eats plants
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carnivore
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an animal that eats other animals
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preditior
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a living thing that hunts other living things for food
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prey
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something that is hunted for food
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scavenger
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an animal that feeds on the remains of other animals
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obnivore
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an animal that eats both plants and animals
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