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| food, shelter & pollination |
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| three things that organisms depend on each other for |
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| the pace where an organism lives |
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| a group of organisms which can interbreed to produce fertile offspring |
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| a group of organisms of the same species |
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| all the populations in an ecosystem |
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| the community (living) and their physical habitats (non-living) |
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| the total variety of all living things in an ecosystems |
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| plants which use light energy to make their own food |
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| animals that eat other organisms to gain energy |
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| animals that only eat plants |
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| animals that only eat other animals |
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| animals that eat both plants and animals |
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| animals that hunt and kill other animals for food |
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| animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals |
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| show the direction of energy flow |
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| a series of interconnected food chains |
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| food webs with more connections |
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| feature of food webs that are more stable |
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| increase in human population |
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| increases the risk of deforestation and pollution |
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| deforestation and pollution |
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| events that can impact biodiversity |
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| Natural hazard that can impact biodiversity |
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| abiotic factors (examples) |
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| temperature, soil moisture, light intensity and pH |
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| abiotic factors (definition) |
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| are non-living factors which affect the distribution of organisms |
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| equipment used to measure temperature |
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| equipment used to measure light intensity |
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| what we use to estimate the abundance of organisms |
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| used to sample plants and slow-moving animals |
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| used to sample ground-dwelling invertebrates |
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| is increased by repetition |
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| totalling a set of values, and dividing that total by the number of values |
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| multiplying the length by the breadth |
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| in an ecosystem investigation, which variable is the abiotic factor affecting the distribution of the plant species is |
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| in an ecosystem investigation, which variable is the distribution of plant species is |
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| a prediction of the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable |
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