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| facts about something that can be used in calculating, reasoning, or planning |
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| a set of living things from one species that occupies a particular geographic area |
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| a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms (biotic), as well as weather and landscape (abiotic), work together to form a bubble of life |
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| any nonnative species (don't belong) that disturbs the ecosystems in which it has been introduced. These species may harm other living things and the environment |
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| a group of food chains within an ecosystem. Most living things eat more than one type of animal or plant. So their food chains overlap and connect |
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| a heavy colorless gas that is formed by burning fuels (cars), by the breakdown or burning of animal and plant matter, and by the act of breathing and that is absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis. |
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| Growth of a system in which the amount being added to the system is proportional to the amount already present: the bigger the system is, the greater the increase. |
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| animals that are at a very high risk of becoming extinct in the wild. |
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| a special skill which helps an animal to survive and do everything it needs to do. Adaptations could be physical changes to the animals body or behavioral changes in how an individual animal or a society do things in their daily lives. |
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| small changes we can make to help look after the planet. Making these changes helps protect animals, plants and our natural resources so that future generations will be able to enjoy them. |
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| living organisms that are a part of the environment |
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| non-living things that are part of the environment such as temperature, light, water, and nutrients |
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| things in an ecosystem that living things depend upon but are not always available. Animals may compete for the same resource and that resource may not be enough for both species |
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