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| Day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere, including temperature, precipitation, and other factors. |
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| Average year-to-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in an area over a long period of time. |
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| Environmental conditions within a small area that differs significantly from the climate of the surrounding area. |
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| The process of which certain gases (carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor) trap sunlight energy in Earth's atmosphere as heat. |
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| The ability of an organisms to survive and reproduce under circumstances that differ from their optimal conditions. |
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| And area where an organism lives including the biotic and abiotic factors that affect it. |
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| Full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organisms uses those conditions. |
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| Competitive exclusion principle |
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| A principle that states that no two can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time. |
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| Interaction is which one organism (the predator) captures and feeds on another organism (the prey) |
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| Interaction in which one animal (the herbivore) feeds on the producer (such as plants) |
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| Single species that is not usually abundant in a community yet exerts strong control on the structure of the community. |
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| Relationship in which two species live close together. |
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| Symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship. |
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| Symbiotic relationship in which one organisms lives on or inside another organism and harms it. |
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| Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped, nor harmed. |
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| Serious of gradual changed that occur in a community following a disturbance. |
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| Succession that occurs in an area in which no trace of a previous community is present. |
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| First species to populate an area during succession. |
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| A type of succession that occurs in an area that was only partially destroyed by disturbances. |
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| Dense covering formed by the leafy tops of tall rain forest trees. |
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| Layer in a rain forest found underneath the canopy formed by shorter trees and vines. |
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| Trees that shed its leaves during a particular season of the year. |
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| Trees that produce sea-bearing cones, and have thin leaves, shaped like needles. |
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| Material formed from decaying leaves, and other organic matter. |
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| Biome with long cold winters and a few months of warm weather; dominated by coniferous; also called boreal forest. |
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| Layer of permanently frozen subsoil found in the tundra. |
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| Sunlight region near the surface of water. |
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| Dark layer of the oceans below the photic zone, where sunlight does NOT penetrate. |
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| Organisms that live attached to or near the bottoms of lakes, stream, or oceans. |
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| Microscopic organisms that live in aquatic environments. |
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| An ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface for at least part of the year. |
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| A kind of wetland formed where a river meets the ocean. |
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