Girls - Ecosystem
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| Oceans | the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the Earth's surface.
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| Lakes | natural or man-made body of water that is surrounded by land
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| Ponds | a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream
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| Ecosystems | all the living things in an environment including their interactions with each other
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| Terrestrial | ecosystem found only on landforms
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| Aquatic | areas of ocean and other water bodies which have similar climatic condition on the Earth
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| Estuary | area where seawater mixes with freshwater
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| Salt Marsh | coastal wetlands that are flooded and drained by salt water
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| Grasslands | wide expanses of land filled with low growing plants such as grasses and wildflowers
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| Food Chain | path of the energy in food from one organism to another
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| Food Web | overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
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| Producers | any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that animals need
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| Consumers | any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals
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| Decomposers | any of the fungi or bacteria that break down dead plants and animals into useful things like minerals and rich soil
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| Parasitism | a relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism and benefits from that relationship while the other organism may be harmed by it
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| Pioneer Community | the first community thriving in a once lifeless area
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| Pioneer Species | the first species living in an otherwise lifeless area
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| Predator | animal that hunts other animals for food
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| Prey | living thing that is hunted for food
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| Primary Succession | the beginning of a community where few, if any, living things exist, or where earlier communities were wiped out
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| Renewable Resource | a resource that can be replaced in a short period of time
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| Scavenger | a meat-eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals
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| Secondary Community | the beginning of a new community where an earlier community already exists
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