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| Changing to suit the environmental conditions. |
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| A variety of species of plants and animals. |
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| The battle between different types of organism over the same resource. |
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| Keeping a habitat the same as environmental conditions change. |
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| Cutting trees and shrubs to ground level to encourage rapid new growth |
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| A particular set of conditions, including water, temperature, light and air. |
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| The living and non-living factors which affect organisms. |
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| The process where fertilizers and sewage build up in water, over-encouraging algal growth which leads to light and oxygen supplies being depleted.This in turn leads to other organisms in the water dying off. |
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| Conditions that are far outside the boundaries where humans can live comfortably. |
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| Average temperatures measured across the whole surface of the plant. |
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| Evidence of the effecets of human activity on the environment shown on a living organism. |
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| Living creatures such as animals, plants or insects. |
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| Chemicals that act as ferilisers which are found in sewage. |
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| Contamination of the environment. |
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| A group of individuals of the same species living in the same habitat. |
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| Killing and eating other animals for food. |
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| Reusing materials instead of the orignal resource. |
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| Planting trees to increase the number of trees. |
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| Replacing a tree or a shrub by planting another of the same species. |
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| Material or energy used by living things. |
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| A tumour of the skin, usually caused by too much UV-B radiation. |
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| The gradual change of a habitat to become woodland. |
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