environmental science review

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What are biotic factors?

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All the living organisms that inhabit an environment, for example a beetle, a leaf and a tree.

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What is artificial selection?

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Breeding organisms with specific traits in order to produce offspring with identical traits, for example sweeter fruit or more colorful flowers.

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What are nonrenewable resources?

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Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas and other items we use faster than they can be renewed.

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What is coevolution?

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The process of two species changing genetically in response to long term interactions with one another.

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What are abiotic factors?

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Non-living things that never lived, for example, water, soil, temperature.

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What is an ecosystem?

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A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. Examples might include an oak forest, a coral reef or a vacant lot.

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What is biodiversity?

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The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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What is a food chain?

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A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

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What is the greenhouse effect?

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The warming of the Earth's surface due to the trapping of heat by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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