Biosphere Vocab

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All life on Earth.

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biosphere

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Organisms in an area & their non-living environment features

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ecosystem

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Study of interactions among organisms and their environment

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ecology

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Organisms of the same species in an ecosystem

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population

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All populations in an ecosystem

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Community

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Living or once-living component of an ecosystem; includes producers (plants), consumers (animals), and decomposers (fungi, bacteria).

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Biotic

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Non-living chemical and physical factors affecting ecosystems: soil, water, air, temperature, sunlight.

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abiotic

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Area containing all an organism's survival needs

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habitat

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When organisms compete for the same resource simultaneously

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competition

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Feature restricting population size

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limiting factor