habitat - a place where an organism lives, species - group of similar individuals that can interbreed to make fertile offspring, population - group of the same species living in a habitat, community - different populations living in a habitat, ecosystem - communities and the abiotic factors in a habitat, biotic - all the ling factors e.g. predators, abiotic - non-living factors e.g. light, temperature, wind, interdependence - all organisms in an ecosystem depend on each other for survival, stable community  - Where the population of all species remains relatively constant, structural - adaptation that you can see that helps survival e.g. camouflage, behavioural - what an animal does to adapt to its environment, functional - Internal processes that help animals compete (e.g. venom, ability to hibernate), extremophile - Adapted to extreme environments (e.g. tardigrades), producer - Plant or algae that makes food (glucose) via photosynthesis. Always at the start of a food chain., primary consumer - First to eat producer (e.g. herbivore), predator - ANIMAL that eats another animal, prey - animal that gets eaten by a predator, quadrat - Square frame (you count what is inside this), transect - A tape measure (that you can line quadrats against), transpiration - Water evaporates from stomata/leave, condensing - Water vapour turns into liquid water/rain, precipitation - Falling water - either rain or snow, biodiversity - variety of living things, herbicide - Chemical that kills plants/weeds, pesticide - Chemical that kills insects that eat plants, fertiliser - Contains nutrients to help plants grow, bioaccumulation - Build up of pesticides in a food chain, greenhouse gas - Gases that trap heat e.g. Carbon dioxide and methane, climate change - causes loss of biodiversity, extreme weather, melts polar ice caps,

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