Definitons

Number of different plants and animals in an erea

Dynamic interaction between plants, animals and organisms and their environment working together as a functional unit

Uses knowledge of adaptions from other species to improve the design of manufactured items

Study of how normal functions of living organisms work

International union for conservation of nature

Day/ night cycle

A species that is native to a particular geographical area

An environment without oxygen

Amount of solar radiation reaching a given area

Data that can be used to represent the value of something when it cannot be directly measured. (Preserved physical characteristics of the past)

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations reduced by photoautotrophs

Producers/self feeding organisms: photautrophs (energy from sun), chemautrophs (energy from chemicals)

Tree dating, determine age of wood and construct past ideas of environmental conditions

Contains ozone layer, above troposphere but below mesosphere