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Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic factors | The living parts of an ecosystem are called biotic factors. Examples: soil, water, temperature, sunlight |
| Abiotic factors | Nonliving things in ecosystems are called abiotic factors. Examples: soil, water, temperature, sunlight |
| Organism | A single form of life; the simplest form of organization in ecology. |
| Population | All members of one kind of organism that live in a particular area. |
| Communities | A group of different populations of organisms |
| Ecosystem | A collection of different communities and the abiotic factors. |
| Niche | the specific role an organism plays in an ecosystem |
| California Gold Rush | period where thousands of people went west to search for gold |
| Cattle Drive | when cowboys guided huge herds of cattle north to new railroad lines extending across the Great Plains |
| Pony Express | business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days |
| Telegraph | invention that sent messages along wires using Electricity |
| Samuel B. Morse | developed a way to send telegraph messages |
| Transcontinental Railroad | a railroad across the continent linking the Eastern United States to the Western United States |
| Union Pacific | began building train track west from Omaha, Nebraska. Most workers were Irish immigrants |
| Inspect | to look at something or someone closely |
| Uninhabited | an empty or abandoned place |
| Transferred | to move or change from one place to another |
| Descended | to move or fall in a downward direction |
| Alliance | an agreement between nations to support and protect each other |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Infer | to use the text and what you already know to draw a conclusion |
| Monopoly | total control of a type of industry by one person or company |
| Evaluate | to judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality |
| Deposition | act of depositing sediments of rock in a new location |
| Interdependence | mutual dependence between two or more organisms or group of organisms for survival in a specific environment |
| Ordered pairs | a pair of numbers that give the coordinates of a point on a grid (horizontal coordinate, vertical coordinate) |
| Properties | a sample of matter that is fixed by its state |
| Judge | to show an (act claim statement, etc.) to be just or right |
| Pattern | an ordered set of numbers, shapes or other mathematical objects arranged according to a rule |
| Emotional Regulation | the way we deal with big feelings like anger, excitement, frustration, anxiety, etc. |
| Gratitude | the state of being grateful and thankful |
| Empathy | the ability to feel what others feel |
| Grit | ability to keep working toward a goal, overcoming challenges and sticking with it even when it’s hard |
| Expression | a mathematical equation without an equal sign |
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