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S I M P L E E C O L O G Y T E R M S

Abiotic = Nonliving
Biotic = Living
Ecosystem = A community of aboitic and biotic factors interacting as a system.
Pollution = Chemicals that make a change to an ecosystem.
Biosphere = Portion of Earth that supports life
Autotroph = An organism that create their own food
Heterotroph = An organism that can not create food by themself
Herbivore = An organism that eats plants
Carnivore = An organism that eats meat
Scavenger = Eats dead animals
Omnivore = Eats both eat and plants
Decomposer = Breaks down dead and decaying plants and animals into simplier molecules that can be digested

Biomes = Climatically and geographically defined and distict ecosystems

1. Terrestrial/land biomes
2. Aquatic biomes

Climate factors on biomes =

Latitude: Arctic, boreal, temperate, subtropical, tropical

Humidity: humid, semihumid, semiarid, and arid

seasonal variation: Rainfall may be distributed evenly throughout the year or be marked by seasonal variations.

dry summer, wet winter: Most areas of the earth get the greater part of their precipitation throughout the mid year months; Mediterranean atmosphere districts get their precipitation throughout the winter months.

Elevation: Increasing elevation causes a distribution of habitat types similar to that of increasing latitude.

Ecological succession = Change over a period of time of the species of an ecological community over time. It happens when an ecological community undergoes changes following a disturbance of the new habitat.

Climate system = atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, land surface, and biosphere.

Climate = Climate is the measure of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressue, wind, precipitaiton, atmospheric particle count and other variables in a long period of time, versus weather which is a short time.