Ecosystems Flashcards

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Environment

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Environment is all living things around an organism.

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Adaptation

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A adaption is a structure of behavior that allow a species to survive and reproduce in its environment.

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Species

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Species have the same general physical adaption

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Community

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Community is organisms that live together in an ecosystem

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Biotic

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Biotic is living factors in an ecosystem

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Abiotic

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Abiotic is non living factors in an ecosystem

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Niche

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Niche is a roll that each species plays in its community

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Ecosystem

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Ecosystem is an area which living and non living things interact

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Population

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Population contains all the organisms of the same kind of community.

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Habitat

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Habitat is where animals live.

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Biome

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The Biome is a large geographic area with similar climates and ecosystems.

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Taiga

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The taiga is largest biome.

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Deciduous forest

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The deciduous is where we live.;

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Rain forest

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The rain forest gets 400 cm of rainfall each year.

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Grasslands

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Grasslands are mostly made up of grass

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Desert

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The dessert is the hottest biome.

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Tundra

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The tundra is the coldest biome

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Food chain

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Its the order that starts with producer goes consumer and ends with decomposers

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Food web

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Interconnected food chains

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Decomposer

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Organisms that consume dead plants and animals

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Consumer

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Organisms that get energy from eating producers or other consumers

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Producer

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A plant that uses the sun’s energy to make its own food: photosynthesis

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Omnivore

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Animals that eat both plants and animals.

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Herbivore

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Animals that only eat plants.

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Carnivore

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Animals that only eat meat.