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What is ecology the study of?
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How living things interact with each other
and their enviroment.
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What abiotic factor is responsible for the
changes in vegetation as you hike up a
mountain?
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Temperature.
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One species of rabbit has short ears and thick fur. An closely relatied species has long ears and short, thin, fur. The abiotic facotr that may determine where the different rabbits live is _______.
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Temperature
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Thick stmes and leaves help a plant conserve what?
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Water
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What is an example of a biotic factor of a in a pond ecosystems.
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Any type of living thing; such as a type of algae, or fish, ducks, insects
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The soil and trees in a forest belong to the same _________.
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Ecosystem
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What are the nonliving or abiotic parts of an ecosystem?
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Soil, water, air, light, etc. the climate and any other non living facotr that effects the ecosystem.
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What pure gas in the air must be fixed before it is useful to plants?
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Nitrogen
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A plant uses a gas from the air to make sugar during phosynthesis. THis process is part of what cycle?
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Carbon cycle.
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What are the steps, in sequence, in the water cycle?
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Evaporation->condensation->precipitation; starting step could change.
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In an energy pyramid, the lowest level represents how much energy compared to the higher levels?
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Lowest level has most and as it goes up there is less energy.
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What is a producer? Give an example.
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A producer is a organism that takes the sunlight and converts it into a usable energy. example: algae, plants
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What do decomposers eat? What are possible food sources?
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Decomposers eat dead and decaying organisms such as rotting wood or dead animals. They eat producers and consumers.
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Which land biome has the greatest biodiversity? Why?
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The rainforest because it has the most amounts of water.
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The process called nitrogen fixation is essential for life on earth. Give and example of litrgen fixation.
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When bacteria convert nitrogen gas into a form that plants can use.
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