ScienceCh1Biomes bad.txt

temperature and precipatation --> latitude, elevation, ocean currents

average pattern of weather conditions in region

large regions that have similar living and non-living factors, same climate, same plant types

all living things in ecosystem

part of biome different from other parts in abiotic and biotic factors (log, pond, forest)

number of same species in an area

living thing

can reproduce with each other

organism, population,community, ecosystem

place where specific a organism lives

• role in environment, how it survives
• all chemical, physical, biological interactions for it to survive, grow, reproduce

harmful interaction between 2 or more organisms when they compete for same resources at same place, same time --> limits population sizes

interaction, predator eats all or part of prey

• interaction between memboers of 2 different species that live together in a close association
• mutualism, commensalism, parasitism

both benefit

one benefit, other unaffected/harmed

one benefit, other harmed

• characteristics that enable organisms to better survive and reproduce
• structual
• physiological
• behavioral

physical feature of body with specific function that attributes to survival of organism

physical/chemical event in body (photosynthesis, hibernation)

what organism does in unique environment (feeds, mates, care for young, migrates, burrows to escape predators)

living, non-living

chemicals required for plant and animal growth (carbon, nitrogen, phosphurous)