Ecosystems Flashcards

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Ecosystems

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A place were living and non-living things interact.

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Community

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Were Organisms live together.

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Niche

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It is the role each organism plays.

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Biotic factors

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All living things in a ecosystem.

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Abiotic factors

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All non-living thing in a ecosystem.

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Population

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A group of organisms of one species that live in a area at the same time

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Habitat

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The place in an ecosystem in which organisms live

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Environment

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All the conditions surrounding a living thing

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Adaptations

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A change in a organism to better fit an ecosystem

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Species

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The lowest level of classification

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Biome

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A biome is a big ecosystem

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Deciduous forest

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A deciduous forest can be found in USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, China. Trees in the deciduous forest loose there leaves

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Desert

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The desert gets at least 20cm of rain each year. And not all deserts are hot

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Taiga

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The taiga is the worlds largest biome. There are long cold winters and short mild wet summers

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Tundra

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The tundra is the worlds coldest biome

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Grassland

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Grassland is another way of saying Savannah and prairie

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Tropical rainforest

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tropical rainforests are close to the equator

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Producer

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An organism that uses the suns energy to make their own food

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Consumers

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They get their energy from eating other producers

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Decomposers

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They consume dead plants and animals

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Herbivores

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They only eat plants

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Carnivores

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They only eat meat

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Omnivores

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They eat plants and animals

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food chain

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A food chain is were all plants and animals get energy from one another. For example β˜€οΈ gives the 🌿🌲🌳🌡 and then those plants die and then πŸ„ eat those and then animals eat the πŸ„ then bigger animals eat those animals

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Food web

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The food web unlike the food chain isn’t as neat. It is like a huge πŸ•Έ that explains what eats what and then this eats that