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| 31221974 | Abiotic | Nonliving; referring to physical and chemical properties of an environment | |
| 31221975 | abyssal zone | The part of the ocean's benthic zone between 2,000 and 6,000 m deep | |
| 31221976 | Aphotic zone | The part of an ocean or lake beneath the photic zone, where light does not penetrate sufficiently for photosynthesis to occur | |
| 31221977 | Benthic zone | The bottom surface of an aquatic environment | |
| 31221978 | Benthos | The communities of organisms living in the benthic zone of an aquatic biome | |
| 31221979 | Biomes | Any of the world's major ecosystems, often classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptations of organisms to that particular environment | |
| 31221980 | Biosphere | The entire portion of Earth's inhabited by life; the sum of all the planet's ecosystems | |
| 31221981 | Biota | the living plants (flora) and living animals (fauna) of a region | |
| 31221982 | Biotic | Pertaining to the living organisms in the environment | |
| 31221983 | Canopy | The uppermost layer of vegetation in a terrestrial biome | |
| 31221984 | Chaparral | A scrubland biome of dense, spiny, evergreen shrubs found at midlatitudes along coasts where cold ocean currents circulate offshore; characterized by mild, rainy winters and long, hot, dry summers | |
| 31221985 | Climate | The long-term prevailing weather condition at a locality | |
| 31221986 | Climograph | A plot of the temperature and precipitation in a particular region | |
| 31221987 | Community | ALl the organisms that inhabit a particular areal an assemblage of populations of different species living close enough together for potential interaction | |
| 31221988 | Community ecology | The study of how interactions between species affect community structure and organization | |
| 31221989 | Coniferous forest | the worlds largest biome; during the summers, the soils remains very wet and is an ideal place for mosses to grow; found north of the deciduous forests | |
| 31221990 | Coral reef | Typically a warm-water, tropical ecosystem dominated by the hard skeletal structures secreted primarily by the resident cnidarians. Some reefs also exist in cold, deep waters | |
| 31221991 | Deep-sea hydrothermal vent | A dark, hot, oxygen-deficient environment associated with volcanic activity on or near the seafloor. The producers in a vent community are chemoautotrophic prokaryotes |
