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Which process removes carbon from the atmosphere?

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Which process removes carbon from the atmosphere?

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Green plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by photosynthesis

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- A microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity, or chemical concentration.

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What type of consumers are found in a food chain?

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What type of consumers are found in a food chain?

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A food chain ends with a consumer, which is an animal that eats a plant or another animal.

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What do the arrows in a food chain show?

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What do the arrows in a food chain show?

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Which processes release carbon back into the atmosphere?

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Which processes release carbon back into the atmosphere?

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Combustion of fossil fuels. We extract fossils fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) from the ground and burn them for energy at power plants. The burning of fossil fuels is called combustion. Fossil fuel combustion releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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Behavioural adaptations are the things organisms do to survive. For example, bird calls and migration are behavioural adaptations.

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Structural and Behavioral Adaptations - NatureWorks

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All organisms have adaptations that help them survive and thrive. Some adaptations are structural. Structural adaptations are physical features of an organism like the bill on a bird or the fur on a bear. Other adaptations are behavioral. Behavioral adaptations are the things organisms do to survive.

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Describe how quadrats are used to sample a habitat:

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Describe how quadrats are used to sample a habitat:

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A transect is a line across a habitat or part of a habitat. It can be as simple as a string or rope placed in a line on the ground. The number of organisms of each species can be observed and recorded at regular intervals along the transect.

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Describe how and why a transect is used to sample a habitat:

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Describe how and why a transect is used to sample a habitat:

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A transect is a line across a habitat or part of a habitat. It can be as simple as a string or rope placed in a line on the ground. The number of organisms of each species can be observed and recorded at regular intervals along the transect.

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Possible adaptions an animal may have for a cold environment:

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Possible adaptions an animal may have for a cold environment:

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Possible adaptions an animal may have for a hot, dry environment:

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Possible adaptions an animal may have for a hot, dry environment:

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What adaptions may plants have for a hot, dry environment?

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What adaptions may plants have for a hot, dry environment?

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Living things meet their needs from living and nonliving things in ecosystems. Plants are important in ecosystems. They are food for many animals. Plants use water from the soil, carbon dioxide from the air, and energy from sunlight to make their own food

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What role do microorganisms play In cyclophosphamide materials through an ecosystem?

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What role do microorganisms play In cyclophosphamide materials through an ecosystem?

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The ecosystem, both on land and in the water, depends heavily upon the activity of bacteria. The cycling of nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur is completed by their ceaseless labor.

Organic carbon, in the form of dead and rotting organisms, would quickly deplete the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere if not for the activity of decomposers. This may not sound too bad to you, but realize that without carbon dioxide, there would be no photosynthesis in plants, and no food. When organisms die, the carbon contained in their tissues becomes unavailble for most other living things.  Decomposition is the breakdown of these organisms, and the release of nutrients back into the environment, and is one of the most important roles of the bacteria.

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Examples of abiotic factors that can affect a community:

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Examples of abiotic factors that can affect a community:

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Biotic and Abiotic Factors

An ecosystem is defined as any community of living and non-living things that work together. Ecosystems do not have clear boundaries, and it may be difficult to see where one ecosystem ends and another begins. In order to understand what makes each ecosystem unique, we need to look at the biotic and abiotic factors within them. Biotic factors are all of the living organisms within an ecosystem. These may be plants, animals, fungi, and any other living things. Abiotic factors are all of the non-living things in an ecosystem.

Both biotic and abiotic factors are related to each other in an ecosystem, and if one factor is changed or removed, it can affect the entire ecosystem. Abiotic factors are especially important because they directly affect how organisms survive.

Examples of Abiotic Factors

Abiotic factors come in all types and can vary among different ecosystems. For example, abiotic factors found in aquatic systems may be things like water depth, pH, sunlight, turbidity (amount of water cloudiness), salinity (salt concentration), available nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorous, etc.), and dissolved oxygen (amount of oxygen dissolved in the water). Abiotic variables found in terrestrial ecosystems can include things like rain, wind, temperature, altitude, soil, pollution, nutrients, pH, types of soil, and sunlight.

The boundaries of an individual abiotic factor can be just as unclear as the boundaries of an ecosystem. Climate is an abiotic factor - think about how many individual abiotic factors make up something as large as a climate. Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and forest fires, are also abiotic factors. These types of abiotic factors certainly have drastic effects on the ecosystems they encounter.

A special type of abiotic factor is called a limiting factor. Limiting factors keep populations within an ecosystem at a certain level. They may also limit the types of organisms that inhabit that ecosystem. Food, shelter, water, and sunlight are just a few examples of limiting abiotic factors that limit the size of populations. In a desert environment, these resources are even scarcer, and only organisms that can tolerate such tough conditions survive there. In this way, the limiting factors are also limiting which organisms inhabit this ecosystem.

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abiotic factors of an ecosystem: definition & examples - video & lesson transcript | study.com

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Abiotic Factors of an Ecosystem: Definition & Examples - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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An ecosystem is defined as any community of living and non-living things that work together. Ecosystems do not have clear boundaries, and it may be difficult to see where one ecosystem ends and another begins. In order to understand what makes each ecosystem unique, we need to look at the biotic and abiotic factors within them.

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food

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