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3.1 Biomes
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Biology
12th Grade
03/19/2014

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Ecosystem
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An ecosystem is a community of biotic and abiotic things interacting as a system.

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Community


 

Definition

All the populations of the different species living and
inter-acting in the same ecosystem
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species


 

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A group of organisms that can breed
to produce fully fertile offspring
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population

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A group of organism of the same species which live in the same habitat at the same time where they can freely interbreed
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Limiting factors

biotic- a factor that is a living component affecting another organism

example:birth potential, breeding frequency,length of reproductive life, food sufficency, number of predators

abiotic-a factor that is a non-living component affecting another organism

example:temperature, oxygen level, chemical environment

 

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