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| Question | Answer |
| Biodiversity | Amount of biological or living diversity per unit area. |
| Species Diversity | Variety of species per unit area. Includes both number of species present + relative abundance |
| Habitat Diversity | Range of different habitats or number of niches per unit area in an ecosystem or biome |
| Genetic Diversity | Range of genetic material in a gene pool or population of a species |
| Species | A group of organisms that interbreed to produce fertile offspring |
| Isolation | Process by which two populations become separated by geographical, behavioural, genetic or reproductive factors |
| Speciation | Process through which new species form |
| Evolution | Changes in the genetic composition of a population over time |
| Plate tectonics | The movement of the 8 major and several minor internally rigid plates of the Earth's lithosphere in relation to each other of the partially mobile asthenosphere below |
| Succession | The orderly process of change over time in a community |
| Pioneer species | The first species to arrive in the formation of an ecosystem in primary succession |
| Climax community | A community of organisms that is stable + in equilibrium with natural environmental conditions. The final stage of ecological succession |
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