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What is a population?
A group of individuals living together in a certain area.
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What is climate?
Different factors like temperature, weather, sun, etc, that affect a location.
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What is cryptic coloration?
An animal that camouflages itself using its coloring.
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What is solar energy?
The energy from the Sun that fuels primary producers.
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What is a community?
A group of populations of different species in an area.
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What is macroclimate?
Climate on a bigger scale, like the seasons changing.
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What is warning coloration?
Animals that are brightly colored to warn predators that they are poisonous.
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What are primary producers?
Plants that get their energy from solar energy.
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What is an ecosystem?
A community and the different physical factors, like weather, temperature, etc.
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What is microclimate?
Climate on a smaller scale, like an animal that lives in a tree.
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What is Batesian mimicry?
A harmless animal that imitates the look of a different harmful animal.
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What are primary consumers?
Herbivores that eat primary producers.
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What is a landscape?
Many connected ecosystems.
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What is climate change?
The way the climate changes in temperature, weather patterns, etc, over the years.
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What is Mullerian mimicry?
Two different animals that taste bad mimic or resemble each other so that nothing eats them.
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What are secondary consumers?
Carnivores that eat the herbivores.
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What is a biosphere?
The global ecosystem.
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What is a disturbance?
An event like a forest fire, earthquake, or storm that can't be prevented.
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What is herbivory?
Plants avoiding being eaten by having things like thorns or toxins.
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What are tertiary consumers?
Carnivores that eat the secondary consumers.
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