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| a non-living part of an ecosystem, including water, soil, and temperature |
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| a living part of an ecosystem, including animals, plants, and fungi |
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| a cold, treeless biome of the far north |
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| a cold forest biome of conifers in the upper Northern region |
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| a hot, humid biome near the equator, with much rainfall and a wide variety of life. |
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| a sandy or rocky biome, with little precipitation and little plant life |
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| also known as prairie or savanna, a biome where grasses are the main plant life |
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| all of the organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time |
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| the area in which an organism lives |
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| all the living and nonliving things in an area interacting with each other. |
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| one of the earth's large ecosystems, with its climate, soil, plants and animals |
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| organism that produces food and oxygen for other animals |
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| organism that cannot make it's own food, eats plants or other animals |
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| an animal that feeds of the remains of dead animals |
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| an animal that eats other animals |
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| an animal that eats only plants |
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| An animal that eats both plants and animals |
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| all the populations living in an area |
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| the role of an organism has in an ecosystem |
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| anything that controls the growth or survival of an organism or population |
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| the study of living things and their environment |
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| a characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment, such as camoflauge |
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| the process in which plants use the sun's energy to make food |
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| the path of energy in food from one organism to another |
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| overlapping food chains in a community |
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| A display showing there are fewer organisms as you move up food chain |
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| A display showing there are fewer organisms as you move up food chain |
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| living things that hunt other living things for food |
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| a living thing that is hunted for food |
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| to break down dead organisms into useful things that will enrich the soil |
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| A forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each autmun |
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