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SOL 3.6
ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An ecoystem is _______. | a community of plants and animals |
| An organism is a ____________-. | living thing. |
| population | the number of one type of organism that lives in an area. ex. just raccoons |
| community | all the animals and plants that live in the same place. Ex. trees, rabbits, birds, squirrels |
| 4 terrestrial (land) ecosystems | forest, rainforest, grasslands, and desert |
| 6 aquatic(water) ecosystems | oceans, rivers, ponds, lakes, marshes, swamps |
| If an animal is taken away from an ecosystem then the other animals _____________ | will be affected. |
| rainforest. | wet, warm, most plants and animals live here,organisms compete for sun and space |
| desert. | dry, organisms compete for water |
| grassland. | flat open areas of grasses and a few trees |
| forest. | lots of trees and climate changes with the seasons. |
| What is the difference between deciduous and evergreen forests? | Deciducus trees lose their leaves and evergreens don't. |
| ocean | large body of salt water |
| river | water moves from high to low areas |
| marshes | shallow water with grasses |
| pond and lakes | water with land around them pond is smaller than a lake |
| swamps | water that doesn't move very much, trees grow in swamps |