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| This biome receives the most rain of any biome. The soil is not rich in nutrients. It has the most biodiversity of any biome. More types of plants and animals live there then in any other biome. It is warm all year long. It gets a ot of sunshine all year long. |
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| Can be hot and cold but receives the least amount of rainfall of all the biomes. |
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| Taiga or Coniferous Forest |
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| Dominated by pine trees. Has long cold winters and evergreen trees that do not loose their leaves or needles. |
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| Has four separate seasons. The trees loose their leaves in the fall and winter. The soil is very fertile. |
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| Dominated by grass. It has very few trees. It has a nongrowing season. The soil is very fertile and rich with nutrients. |
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| Long cold winters. Short growing season. Very little rain. The ground is frozen all year long and called permafrost. |
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| The study of interactions between an organism and its environment. |
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| Describes living factors in the environment. |
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| Describes nonliving factors in the environment. |
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| One individual of a certain species |
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| A group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same place. |
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| All the populations of different species that live and interact in the same place. |
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| A community of living organisms and its abiotic environment in the same place. |
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| The part of the Earth where life exists. |
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| A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. |
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| Where do animals get there energy? |
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| By eating other plants or animals. |
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| Where do plants get their energy? |
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| From the process called Photosynthesis. |
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| What three things do plants need in order to do photosynthesis? |
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| Carbon Dioxide, water, and Sunlight in the presence of chlorophyll in a plant. |
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| What two things are produced by photosynthesis? |
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| Oxygen and sugar (starch) |
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| Predators are the animals that catch and eat other animals |
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| Prey are the animals that other animals catch and eat! |
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| A consumer that eats plants. |
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| A consumer that eats animals. |
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| Animals that eat plants and animals. |
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| An animal that feeds on the bodies of dead animals. |
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| An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients. |
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| A diagram that represents how the energy in food molecules flows from one organism to the next. |
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| A complex diagram representing the many energy pathways in a real ecosystem. |
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