2) Oceans Flashcards

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1
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What do we need to protect?

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Oceans, rivers, animals, forests

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Food chain

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A food chain describes how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem

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Producer

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They produce their own food using carbon dioxide and water

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Consumer

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Things that eat other living things (herbivores, omnivores or carnivores)

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Primary consumer

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organisms which eat producers (herbivores)

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Secondary consumer

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organisms that eat primary consumers (carnivores)

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Tertiary consumers

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Organisms that eat secondary consumers (carnivores)

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Food web

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Consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem

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Habitat

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Place an organism lives that contains all the things it needs to thrive

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Abiotic

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Non-living parts of a habitat e.g. temperature, water, sun

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Biotic

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Living parts of a habitat e.g. food, plants, animals, trees

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Adaptation

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Process whereby a species evolves characteristics that enable it to survive in a particular habitat

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Physical adaptations

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  • A changing feature of a living thing that helps it to survive in a particular environment
  • Changes usually happen vary over a very long time (years).
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Behavioural adaptations

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  • A thing that a living does to survive in a particular environment e.g. the way they feed, breed or move
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