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- 1EcosystemAn assemblage of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
ex. plants, animals - 2BiomesPlanet-scale terrestrial and aquatic regions with similar climate conditions- mainly temperature and moisture.
ex. Tundra - 3EcosphereThe zone where life is found
ex. Earth - 4Lithosphere/geosphereThe rigid outer part of the Earth
ex. crust, mantle, volcanoes, soils, plate tectonics - 5CryosphereThe frozen water part of Earth's system. Stores fresh water, has large sheets of ice and the regulation of the flux of regional temperatures.
ex. Beaufort Sea - 6BiosphereThe regions of the surface, atmosphere and hydrosphere, the Earth occupied by living organisms.
ex. deer, humans, wolves, any species. - 7AtmosphereContribution of gases used to regulate Earth's temperature, carbon cycle, water cycle.
ex. oxygen, carbon dioxide, methane - 8HydrosphereAll the waters on the Earth's surface.
ex. lakes, seas, rivers, fresh water, salt water - 9BioticLiving things or their materials that directly or indirectly affect an organism in its environment.
ex. disease, parasitism, predation - 10AbioticNon-living physical and chemical factors which affect the ability of organisms to survive and reproduce.
ex. temperature range>penguins, water availability, level of pollution - 11HabitatPlace or type of place where an organisms or population of organisms live
ex. squirrel in a tree trunk - 12SystemCollections of components/parts that are related to each other.
ex. BLANK - 13Components of SystemsBLANK>Professor Isom
- 14Environmental ContextBLANK>Professor Isom
- 15Spatially Defined AreaBLANK>Professor Isom
- 16Gradients of Environmental ConditionsA range of organisms both capable and non-capable of living within any set of environmental conditions: from optimal or marginal conditions.
Ex. Hot to cold = gradient, Wet to dry = gradient
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