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Girls - Ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oceans | the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the Earth's surface. |
| Lakes | natural or man-made body of water that is surrounded by land |
| Ponds | a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream |
| Ecosystems | all the living things in an environment including their interactions with each other |
| Terrestrial | ecosystem found only on landforms |
| Aquatic | areas of ocean and other water bodies which have similar climatic condition on the Earth |
| Estuary | area where seawater mixes with freshwater |
| Salt Marsh | coastal wetlands that are flooded and drained by salt water |
| Grasslands | wide expanses of land filled with low growing plants such as grasses and wildflowers |
| Food Chain | path of the energy in food from one organism to another |
| Food Web | overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| Producers | any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that animals need |
| Consumers | any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals |
| Decomposers | any of the fungi or bacteria that break down dead plants and animals into useful things like minerals and rich soil |
| Parasitism | a relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism and benefits from that relationship while the other organism may be harmed by it |
| Pioneer Community | the first community thriving in a once lifeless area |
| Pioneer Species | the first species living in an otherwise lifeless area |
| Predator | animal that hunts other animals for food |
| Prey | living thing that is hunted for food |
| Primary Succession | the beginning of a community where few, if any, living things exist, or where earlier communities were wiped out |
| Renewable Resource | a resource that can be replaced in a short period of time |
| Scavenger | a meat-eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals |
| Secondary Community | the beginning of a new community where an earlier community already exists |
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