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- climate
- those aspects of the weather, such as temperautre, rainfall, and light that infuence the life or organisms
- decomposition
- the process by which organsims cause decay
- latutide
- distance of a place from the equator, measured in degrees
- precipitation
- condensation of water vapor, such as rain or snow
- temperate
- (of climate) without extremes of heat and cold
- agriculture
- large cultivation of the land
- community
- all the organisms living in a particular area
- deciduous
- shedding its leacves annually
- conifers
- of cone-baring trees, such as pines and their realatives
- vents
- openinfs in the earth found at the oceans's bottom
- savanna
- grassy flat land in hot regions with few trees
- trupics
- line of lailtutide 23 degrees north or south of the equator
- biomes
- geographical areas filled with a mahor community of plant and animal life
- aqauatic
- taking place in or on water
- alpine
- of high mountains
- ecosystem
- all the organisms present in a particular area, together with their physical environment
- desert
- barren, often sandy, area
- terrestrial
- of, or living on , land
- algae
- marin or fresh water by evaporation through the plant's pores
- preadotars
- animal that preys on another organisms
- transpirtation
- loss or water by evaportation through the plants's pores
- grassland
- wide grass-covered area with few trees
- nutrient
- any chemical that an organism must take from its environment in order to survive
- tundra
- a treeless geographic area where the subspil is frozen