The Living World!!!
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Vocabulary: abiotic, adaptation, assimilation, biodiversity, biological populations and communties, biomass, biomes, biotic, cellular respiration, chemosynthesis, commensalism, community, consumers, decomposers, detritivore, ecological pyramids, exponential growth, generalist species, geographic isolation, greenhouse effect, food chains and webs, indicator species, inter/intraspecies interactions, invasive species, K-selected species, keystone species, logistical growth, mutualism, natural selection, niches, photosynthesis, population, primary productivity, primary succession, producers, r-selected species, scavengers, secondary succession, specialist species, transpiration, trophic level.
Ecosystem Structure
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Extra Resources:
horseshoe crab video: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/crash-a-tale-of-two-species/video-full-episode/4772/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/_ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/plantindex.php