Biomes

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Biotic Factor

Answer 1

Living or once living organisms within an ecosystem (tree, turtle, driftwood, dead leaves)

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Biomes

Answer 1

a region of the world characterized by life, environment and climate

Question 2

Biodiversity

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• the variety of life, including plant and animal species

Question 3

Climate Change

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Long-term pattern change in the average weather patterns across global, local and regional scales

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Commensalism

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A symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed (A sloth hiding in a tree)

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Community

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is made up of all of the populations of different species that live and interact in an area

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Ecosystem

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An area where abiotic and biotic organisms live together in a particular environment

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Global Warming -

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Long-term heating of the Earth’s surface due mainly to the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere (this is an example of climate change)

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Habitat

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the place within an ecosystem that an organism lives

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Invasive Species

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a species that is introduced to a non-native environment that often causes ecological or economic harm

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Keystone Species

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a species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend

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Mutualism -

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when both species benefit from the relationship (clown fish & sea anemone)

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Ocean Acidification -

Answer 12

Reduction in the pH level of the ocean over an extended period of time, caused primarily by an increase in carbon dioxide

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Parasitism -

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when a species lives or eats off another host (often resulting in a harmful impact to host) - (horses and flies)

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Population

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a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place at the same time

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Symbiotic Relationship -

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A long-term relationship between two organisms of different species (Ex. Mutualistic, Parasitic, Commensalism)

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Grassland-

Answer 16

• open regions dominated by grass, warm, dry climate

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-Savannas (tropical):

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Closer to the equator some trees/ shrubs (a kind of grassland)

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-Temperate:

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no trees or rubs, less, water then savannas (a kind of grass land)

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Tundra-

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very difficult to live in, low precipitation lowest temperature of the 5 biomes

*Arctic and Alpine tundra
*simple vegetation with low biodiversity
*frozen layer under soil (permafrost)

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Freshwater

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-water surrounded by land
-lakes, ponds, rivers

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Marine:

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-75% of the earth’s surface
-ocean, coral reef, and estuaries

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Desert-

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dry areas little resin fall, 20% of the earth’s surface
-Low biodiversity
-can be hot or cold

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Forest-

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dominated by trees, much of the world’s biodiversity
*tropical (rainforests)
*temperate (4seasons)
*Boreal - Coldest