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Yellowstone 1-2Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecosystems | an environment with certain living and non-living things, and the way these things interact |
| ecologist | a scientist who studies ecology, which is the science of how living and non-living things interact in an ecosystem |
| matter | anything that physically takes up space and has mass |
| variable | something that scientists change or measure when they conduct an investigation |
| control | the part of an experiment where you keep everything the same |
| carnivore | an animal that eats other animals |
| consumer | an animal that eats (consumes) other living things for food |
| organism | any living thing, such as a plant, animal, or bacterium |
| herbivore | an animal that only eats plants |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both animals and plants |
| model | something that represents another thing, but is smaller, so that we can understand it better; examples: diagram, computer simulation |
| system | a group of related parts that work together |