Ecosystems Flashcards

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Environment

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All the biotic and abiotic factors that surround and organism

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Ecosystem

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All living and non living things around an organism

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Population

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A community contains many different kinds of populations of organizams

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Niche

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The animals home

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Habitat

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Where the animals live

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Biome

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A large geographic area with similar climates and ecosystem

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Taiga

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Is also called the sold desert it’s the largest biome on earth

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Deciduous forest

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It has four seasons the average temperature is 50f

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Rain forest

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It is located by the equator

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Grasslands

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It has cold winters and hot summers

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Desert

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It covers about 1/5 of the earth Antarctica is the largest desert

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Tundra

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This covers about 1/5 of the earth it is the coldest biome

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Omnivore

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An omnivore is something that eats meat and and grass

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Herbivore

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An animal that only eats plants and animals

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Carnivore

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An animal that only eats meat

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Adaptation

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What an animals does to survive in the wild

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Species

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

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Community

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a group of animals living in the same place or having a particular characteristic

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Biotic

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The living things

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Abiotic

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All non-living things

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producer

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A specific thing that gives energy

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Decomposer

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The animals at the top of the food chain

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Consumer

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The animal that eats another animal

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Food chain

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A series of organizam