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Ecology
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the study of how living things interact with each other.
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Population
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all members of a species in a particular area
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Adaptations
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a behavior or physical charastic that allows an organism to live succesfully in its inviroment.
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Herbivore
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plant eater
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Food Chain
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a series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy
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Biome
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A group of land ecosystems with similar climate and organisms.
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Rain forest temperate
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having moderate temparatures
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tropical rain forest
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climate is worm and humid all year - near the eqauter
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desert
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area that recieves less than 25cm of rain per year
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grassland
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area populated by mostly grasses and other non-wooody plants.
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deciduous forest
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Trees shed leaves and grow new ones.
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Boreal forest
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Trees which drop cones, seed and leaves shaped like needles.
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Tundra
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Extremely cold and dry biome-most of the soil is frozen all year. We call frozen soil permafrost.
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pollution
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Contmination of earths land, water and air.
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