Ecosytems Flashcards

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Ecosystems

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A place where living and nonliving things interact

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Community

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Organism live together in an ecosystem

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Nitch

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The role that each species plays

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Biotic

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Living things

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Abiotic

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Nonliving things

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Environment

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All living and non-living things around an organism is its environment

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Population

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A community contains many different kinds of populations of organism

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Species

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All members of a population are members of the same species

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Adaptation

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An adaptation is a structure of behavior that allows a spieces to survive and reproduce in its environment

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Biome

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A region with similar climate,plants,and animals

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Deciduous forest

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An environment that has trees shed leaves annually

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Desert

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Dry barren and sandy

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Tundra

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Very cold and has little population

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Tropical Forest

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Its a biome with the hot temperatures and constant rainfall

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Taiga

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It has short wet summers and long cold winters

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Grasslands

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They have hot summers and cold winters

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Producer

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A being that provides their own food

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Consumer

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A consumer is someone who consumes

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Decomposer

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Animal who breaks down dead animals

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Herbivore

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Someone that only eats plants

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Habitat

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A natural home or environment of an animal,plant,or other organisms

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Food Chain

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A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

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Food webs

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A system interlocking and interdependent food chains