abiotic factor - any nonliving part of an ecosystem such as water, minerals, sunlight, air, or soil, biotic factor - any living thing that is part of an ecosystem, biome - a region with a particular climate that contains that certain types of plants and ecosystems, benthos - organisms that live on or near the ocean floor, such as seaweed or tube worms, chaparral - a dry region with a thick growth of brush and small trees found in the foothills of California's southern mountain ranges in Sierra Nevada, and along the California coast, climate - the average weather pattern of a region, deciduous - belong to the class of trees or forests that lose their leaves when the winter comes, estuary - the part of a river where fresh water meets the sea and is affected by tides., intertidal zone - the shallowest part of the ocean living between the high tide line and the low tide line, nekton - animals such as flounder, tuna, and squid that swim through the water can be found in any ocean zone., taiga - a cool forest of cone-bearing evergreen trees also called a boreal forest, tundra - a very cold, dry biome that includes a layer of permanently frozen soil., neritic zone - between low tide where the floor drops off and has the most plants and animal life, oceanic zone - includes bathyal and abyssal zones, completely dark, 200 meters to the ocean floor, emergent layer - tops of the trees, canopy - thick blanket of foliage, understory - tree trunks, forest floor - few plants and little sunlight,

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