Ecosystems Flashcards

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Habitat

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Where animals live

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Biotic

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Living things

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Abiotic

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Nonlivening things

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Population

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Species grouping (ex. Snake, bird, tree population

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Community

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Organisms that live together in an ecosystem

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Species

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a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

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Adaptations

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the action or process of adapting or being adapted

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Niche

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a shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament

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Environment

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the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

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Deciduous forest

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Our Biome

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Tropical rainforest

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The tropical rainforest has the most diversity of plants and animal life

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Grassland

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Main plant is grass

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Taiga

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Largest biome

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Desert

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Can be hot or cold

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Tundra

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Coldest biome

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Producer

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Uses the suns energy to make their own food

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Consumer

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Must eat other consumers or producers for energy

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Herbivor

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Eat only plants (cows and horses)

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Carnivore

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Eat only meat (lion and snake)

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Omnivore

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Eats both plants and animals (humans)

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Decomposer

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Gets it’s energy from breaking down dead plants and animals

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Ecosystem

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A place were living and nonliving things interact