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Ecosystem
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An Ecosystem is a community and its physical environment together. All the populations of organisms living together in an environment make up a community.
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Niche
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A niche describes how the species meet its needs and how it affects other organisms. For example: Salt grass provides a home for snails to live on. Salt grass also provides protection for baby fish and shrimp among its underwater stems.
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Adapt
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Every organism has adaptations that help it compete for resources. For example: a cheetah has speed so it can captures its prey.
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Habitat
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A place in an ecosystem where a population lives. For example frogs live in ponds. That is its habitat.
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Extinction
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This is when an organism or animal no longer exists. It was wiped out.
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Competition
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Where animals compete for the resources in an ecosystem such as food. Animals are in competition for the same food. For example: Hyenas and Cheetahs hunt the same type of animals for food.
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Instinct
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Behavior that an organism inherits. For Example: Animals have an instint to survive or protect themselves from danger.
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Environment
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Everything a living organism needs in order to survive. For example: food, soil, weather, landform, air, and water.
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Reproduction
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This is where cells from two parents form together to make one cell. In turn that cell multiplies and forms to create a plant or living organism.
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Pesticides
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Chemicals used to kill a wide variety of unwanted plants or animal pests. The use of these chemicals can damage the ecosystem.
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Population
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All the individuals of the same kind of living thing in the same environment. For example: A mound of ants in an ant hill.
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Inherited Trait
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Characteristic that is passed on from one parent to their offspring. For example: hair color, eye color, fur color is an inherited trait.
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Learned Behavior
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A behavior that is learned from their parents, not inherited. For example: Lions learn how to hunt from their parents in order to survive.
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Food Web
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A food web shows the relationship between many different food chains in a single ecosystem. For example: A shark can eat several types of sea animals in the ocean.
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Food Chain
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A food chain shows how the consumers in an ecosystem are connected to one another to what they eat. For example: An insect will eat grass. A frog will eat an insect. A snake will eat a bird.
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Predator
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An animal that hunts another animal for food.
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Producer
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A living thing that makes its own food. For example: Plants
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Prey
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The animal that is hunted.
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What do all animals need in order to live?
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Air, Water, Food, and Shelter
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Food Chain
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grass-insect-frog-snake
The path of food from one living thing to another. |
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Consumer
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A living thing that eats other living things. All animals are consumers.
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What are the parts of an ecosystem?
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Population(frogs)
Community (all the populations that live there) Habitat (home where the animal lives) |
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Environment
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Everything around a living thing.
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Decomposer
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A living thing that breaks down dead things for food.
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