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| Day-to-day condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. |
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| Refers to the average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region. |
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| Natural situation in which heat is retained by this layer of greenhouse gases. |
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| Cold areas where the sun's rays strike Earth at a very low angle. |
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| Sits between the polar zones and the tropics. |
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| Near the equator Between 23.5 North and 23.5 south Latitude. |
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| Biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem. |
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| Physical or nonliving, factors that shape ecosystems. |
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| Area where an organism lives. |
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| Organism's habitat is its address, it's niche is its occupation. |
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| Any necessity of life, such as water, nutrients, light, food. or space. |
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| Competitive Exclusion Principle |
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| Direct competition in nature often results in a winner and a loser... with the losing organism failing to survive. |
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| An interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism. |
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| Any relationship in which two species live closely together. |
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| Both species benefit from the relationship. |
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| One member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. |
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| One organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it. |
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| Series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over time. |
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| On land, succession that occurs on surfaces where no soil exists. |
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| The first species to populate and area during Primary Succession. |
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| Succession following a disturbance that destroys a community without destroying the soil. |
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| Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities. |
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| Organism's capacity to grow or thrive when subjected to an unfavorable environmental factor. |
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| Climate in a small area that differs from the climate around it. |
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| Tiny, free-floating organisms that live in both freshwater and saltwater environments. |
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| Population of algae and other small photosynthetic organisms found near the surface of the ocean and forming part of plankton. |
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| Tiny animals that form part of the plankton. |
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| Ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface of the soil for at least part of the year. |
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| Wetlands formed where rivers meet the sea. |
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| Made up of tiny pieces of organic material that provide food for organisms at the base of the the estuary's food web. |
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| Temperate-zone estuary dominated by salt tolerant grasses above the low-tide line and by sea grasses under water. |
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| Coastal wetland dominated by mangroves, salt-tolerant woody plants. |
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| Well-lite upper layer of the oceans. |
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| Permanently, dark layer of the oceans below the photic zone. |
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| Prominent horizontal banding of organisms that live in a particular habitat. |
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| Extends from the low-tide to the outer edge of the continental shelf |
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| Coastal ocean community named for its dominant organism. |
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| Diverse and productive environment named for the coral animals that make up its primary structure |
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| Organisms that live attached to or near the ocean floor. |
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