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Ecosystems Vocab
Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abiotic | the nonliving parts of an environment such as soil, water, trash and climate |
| biotic | the living parts of an environment such as plants, animals and fungi |
| producer | a living organism that makes its own food such as grasses, trees and shrubs |
| consumer | living organisms that consume or eat other living things such as deer, mice and coyotes |
| decomposer | organisms that feed on or break down dead plants or animals, producing nutrient rich waste to return to the soil to be reused by producers |
| food chain | a model that shows the process by which energy and matter pass from one living thing to another |
| food web | a model that combines food chains, highlighting the interactions between them |
| interconnectedness | how organisms and environment are connected for survival |
| ecosystem | a community of interacting organisms and their physical environment |
| terrestrial | is having to do with land based surfaces |
| forest | a large area covered mostly with trees and undergrowth |
| rainforest | a large area covered mostly with trees and undergrowth |
| grassland | a large open area of the country covered with grass |
| aquatic | is having to do with water based surfaces |
| streams and river | a stream is a body of freshwater that flows on Earth’s surface, a river normally describes larger streams |
| lakes and ponds | a lake is a large body of freshwater that is surrounded by land, a pond is small body of freshwater that is surrounded by land |
| ocean | is a huge body of salt water |
| salt marsh and estuary | salt marshes are wetlands that form between the ocean and the land, an estuary is where a river meet the sea |
| brackish | brackish water occurs when the freshwater from a river or stream meets the salty seawater of an ocean |
| freshwater | is naturally occurring water that is not salty, but may contain some salt |
| saltwater | naturally occurring salty water |
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