Write 2-3 paragraphs summarizing the chapter in your own words, and write one paragraph expanding one of the summary sentences to a full paragraph with some details. Study with a partner. Ask each other questions from lecture, and ask each other questions about the summary points from each chapter. In practice, the study of organisms and their environments. Some biomes are the tundra, taiga, deciduous woodland, prairie, desert, paramo, tropical wet forest, tropical dry forest, savanna, chaparral, coastal water, open ocean.
Community is an assemblage of living organisms that forms an identifiable group.
Symbiosis simply means organisms living together, without specifying the nature of the relationship. Succession is the change, at a particular place, from one group of organisms to another group of organisms over time. Primary succession is what occurs on newly formed land, such as happened on the Hawaiian Islands as they emerged from the ocean. This can happen due to earthquakes, mudslides, hurricanes, toxic spills, bulldozers, etc. Harsh environments tend to have simpler sets of feeding relationships than environments less harsh, so food chains are more likely to be found in the arctic and the deserts, while complex food webs are more likely to be found in temperate and tropical areas.