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Ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | A community of interacting organisms and they're environment. Living things interact with each other and also with non-living things like soil water and air |
| Botanist | A scientist that studies plants |
| Nectar | A sweet sugary liquid made inside flowers. Insects and hummingbirds feed on |
| Rainforest | An area densely packed with lots of different kinds of plants tall trees and animals. Rainforest gay a lot of rain about 100 in of rain per year. All that rain allows lot of different plants to grow and lot of animals live near those plants. Rainforest al |
| Invasive species | Living things not natural found in that ecosystem. |
| Living things | Anything living such as animals plant insects or bacteria |
| Non-Living things | Anything that doesn't grow in reproduce such as rocks soil air or water |
| Algae | A living thing similar to a plant that is usually found growing in water. They produce their own food through photosynthesis like plants do algae have no leaves stem or roots. |
| Terrarium | A closed container of plants and other living things that shows you have in ecosystem works. |
| Bacteria | Tiny living things that are everywhere around us. We can only see them with a very powerful microscope. They come in different shapes such as rods spirals and spheres. Bacteria is important in the ecosystem to break down dead and dissecting matter. |