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Balancing the biosphere Vocab list
All the words my year 8 class need to lear for our test next week.
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8th Grade
09/26/2011

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Biosphere
Definition
The sphere around earth where life can exist. It enables life to surive all over earth.
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Habitat
Definition
The place where an organsim lives.
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Enviroment
Definition
The surrondings of a living organism. It includes living and non-living features.
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Photosynthesis
Definition
It is the method in which plants gain all nutrients. It is when the y take in the air take all the nutrients from it and excrete the oxygen.
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Respiration
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It is when organisms take in nutrients in the air and burn up fuel (food) to release energy.
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Organisim
Definition
A living thing.
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Population
Definition
A group of organisims that are all in the smae species who are living in the same location.
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Species
Definition
Organisims that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
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Competition
Definition
Two or more organisims who are fighting over a possibly vital resource e.g. Food, territory or mates.
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Top predator
Definition
top of the food chain
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Scanvenger
Definition
Someone who eats things someone else has left over.
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Carnivore
Definition
An organisim that only eats the meat and flesh of other organisims.
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Omnivore
Definition
An organisim that eats both vegetaion/plantation and flesh/meat.
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Herbivore
Definition
A organisim that only eats plantation/vegetaion
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Canniball
Definition
An organisim that eats its own species
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Producer
Definition
Usually plants, they are organisims that collect their energy from the sun
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Consumers
Definition
They are organisims that get their energy by eating other organisims
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Rongoa Maori
Definition
The Maori term for medicenes that are made from native plants
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Community
Definition
A group of different species living in the same habbitat.
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