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Grade 5, Chapter 4
vocabulary for chapter 4, grade 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| large group of similar ecosystems | biome |
| type of weather that occurs in an area over a long period of time | climate |
| group of living things of different species found in an ecosystem | community |
| very dry area | desert |
| all the living and nonliving things that interact with one another in a given area | ecosystem |
| a graphic to explain how much energy is passed along to each feeding level in an ecosystem | energy pyramid |
| description of how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another | food chain |
| description of all the food chains in an ecosystem | food web |
| land covered by grasses with few trees | grasslands |
| all the members of the same type of organism living in an ecosystem | population |
| area that has long, severe winters and short, cool summers | taiga |
| forests that experience four distinct seasons: summer, fall, winter, and spring | temperate forest |
| forests that are both very hot and very rainy | tropical rain forest |
| Earth's coldest biome | tundra |