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Vocabulary of Instruction:
7th Grade Unit 2: Ecosystems Lesson 2: Vocabulary of Instruction:
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Abiotic Inanimate, inorganic, not living. Examples: Water Soil
Sunlight Rocks Wind/Air
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Adaptation Changes in an organism's physiological structure or function or habits that allow it to survive in new surroundings.
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Biome Is the largest ecological unit. It consists of a group of related ecosystems that share some kinds of special plant life and weather patterns. Aquatic Biome Ocean Biome Grassland Biome
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Biosphere Areas of the earth where life exists.
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Biotic Relating to, produced by, or caused by living organisms.
Examples: Rabbit Wolf Bacteria Plants/Grass Mushroom/ Fungi
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Community All the organisms that live in a given habitat and affect one another as part of the food web or through their various influences on the physical environment.
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Ecosystem Is the network of the interactions between organisms and their environment, and has both living and nonliving components. Lake Ecosystem River Ecosystem
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Marine Ecosystem
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Habitat Is the set of physical and environmental conditions that determines where an organism or group of organisms can live most comfortably; factors include climate, amount of rainfall, and amount of sunlight.
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Population Is a group of organisms of the same species that live together.
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Species Is a group of organisms that have common ancestors, and are made up of one or more populations.
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