Terrestrial and Aquatic
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| contains all the living and non-living parts of an area | Ecosystems
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| Ecosystems are made up of all the _______ that live in that area and their nonliving surrounding environment | organisms
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| The ____ and ______ parts of an ecosystem play a role in how the ecosystem function | living and non-living
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| The living parts of the ecosystem | biotic factors
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| The nonliving parts of the ecosystem | abiotic factors
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| Abiotic factors include these five items. | the temperature,water, soil, air and sunlight
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| Everything in an ecosystem including all of the animals, plants, water, soil, air, and sunlight ______ together | interact
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| Land based ecosystems including forest and grasslands | Terrestrial
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| Have many trees (with needles and with leaves), shrubs, grasses,ferns and a variety of animals | Forests
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| Forest usually get ____ rain than grasslands. | more
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| _________ in the forests may vary depending on where the forest is located | Temperature
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| have fertile soil and are covered with tall grasses. | Grasslands
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| Grasslands usually get a ______ amount of rain, but less than forests. | medium
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| Temperature may also very depending on where the grassland is ___ | located
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| Examples of animals that live in the grasslands | prairie dogs, bison, and grasshoppers
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| Water-based ecosystems may be fresh water(lakes and ponds) or saltwater (oceans, estuaries, and saltwater marshes). | Aquatic Ecosystems
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| _____ and ______ are bodies of freshwater that are surrounded by land | Lakes and ponds
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| ______ are usually shallower that lakes and the temperature of the water usually stays the same from top to bottom | Ponds
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| _______ and algae usually grow along the edges where the water is shallow. | Plants
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| Examples of animals in lakes and ponds may be diffrent types of ____, _______, ducks,____ or beavers | fish, amphibians,turtles
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| ____ are large bodies of saltwater divided by continents | Oceans
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| Oceans have many types of _____ depending on the conditions of that part of the ocean | ecosystem
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| These are conditions of the oceans | sunlight, temperature, depth, salinity
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| Most organisms live where the ocean is ____ because sunlight cannot reach deep and the wat is warm, making food abundant | shallow
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| Drifters in the shallow ocean water are | jellyfish or seadweed
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| Example of swimmers in the shallow ocean water are | fish
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| Crabs are examples of ____ in shallow ocean water | crawlers
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| ______ are thoses anchored to the ocean floor. | Corals
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| ______ float in the upper regions of the water. | Plankton
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| Some organisms live in the open _____, near the ______ or down to the deep ocean ______. | ocean, surface, bottom
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| These organisms swim to the surface to find food or air. | whales, turtles, sharks
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| These organisms stay and live closer to the bottom of the ocean. | certain fish, octopi, tubeworms
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| _____ are found where the freshwater rivers meet the oceans. | Estuaries
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| Estuaries are _____ than a river, but not as salty as the ocean | saltier
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| The amound of salt (salinity) changes as the ___ comes in and out | tides
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| Estuaries contain salt ____ with grasses and marsh plants adapted to this changing water. | marshes
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| Examples of animals that live in the estuaries/salt marshes may be | crabs, shrimp, blue heron, egrets and muskrats
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