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What is adaptation.
An inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?
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What is carbon dioxide (Co2)
The gas that humans exhale.
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What is biotic.
The living things in an ecosystem.
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Recycle, reuse and reduce
The three R's
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What is symbiosis.
When two species live closely together in a relationship that lasts over time.
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What is ecosystem.
The interactions between living and non-living things in a particular environment?
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What is evaporation
The process when a liquid turns to a gas.
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What is a producer
The name of an organisms that uses the Sun's energy to make its own food?
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What is succession
The gradual process by which some species replace other species in an ecosystem.
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What is parasitism.
The relationship when one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
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What is sustainability
Resources of nature are renewed as quickly as they are used.
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What is precipitation and condensation
The two processes that return water to Earth in the water cycle.
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What are plants.
Herbivores eat these types of organisms.
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What is an introduced species.
An organisms that is not native or natural to an area?
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What is a parasite.
The name of the organism that harms another organism in a symbiotic relationship.
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What is niche
Role an organism has in an ecosystem?
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What is evaporation and transpiration
The two processes move water up into the atmosphere?
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What is a decomposer.
The name of the organisms that breaks grows on dead or waste material and recycles nutrients back into the ecosystem?
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What is an indicator species.
The type of organisms that can help us monitor the health of an ecosystem?
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What is commensalism
The relationship when neither partner gains or loses from the relationship.
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What is transpiration
The process in which water that is taken in through a plant's roots evaporates from the plant's leaves, stem, and flowers.
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What is acid rain.
This occurs when pollutants such as the burning of fossil fuels mix with water vapour.
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What is a pyramid of numbers.
The model that shows the number of individual organisms at each level of a food chain.
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What is physical, biological, chemical and environmental monitoring.
The different types of environmental monitoring.
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What is mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
The three types of symbiosis.
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