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| many interacting species within a specific area. |
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| conditions like climate, food, water, shelter in an environment |
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| natural changes to an environment over time |
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| a first life on an enviroment where ther is no soil. |
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| life was there before destruction took place due to man made or natural causes. |
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| when an environment reaches a point where littel or no change is happening. |
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| groups of ecosystems that have the same climax community. |
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| salt water ecosystems like intertidal zones estuaries and benthic zones. |
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| water areas that are made up of photic (areas where the sunlight reaches) and aphotic (non-lighted) environments |
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| lakes, rivers, streams, groundwater |
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| land ecosystems determined by annual percipitation and temperature. |
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| a northern or southern biome that rarely rises above freezing, treeless. long summer days and long winter nights, short growing season. |
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| Northern coniferous forest. mad up of needle bearing trees. |
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| very dry region that can be hot or cold with little or no plant life. |
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| a biome with 10 to 30 inches of rainfall a year. Not enough to support trees. Also called a prarie. Mainly supports grazing animals. |
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| Our biome with many deciduous trees and rainfall of 28 - 60 inches. Very diverse wildlife. |
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| 80-240 inches of rain a year. never freezes - warm moist environment. Most diverse collection of animals and plants on earth. |
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| the higher you go, the more the biome is like ones further north. |
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