KEY VOCABULARY
ECOSYSTEMS AROUND US
THE FOUR TYPES
TEXT FEATURES
SIGNAL WORDS
100

The special name scientists use for the free gifts that nature gives to people

What are ecosystem services?

100

True or false: Only very large places can be ecosystems

What is false?

100

The number of main types of ecosystem services

What is four?  

100

The full title of this newspaper article

What is "Nature's Invisible Workers: What Are Ecosystem Services?"

100

This signal phrase tells the reader that an example is coming

What is "for example"?

200

A community of living things and their non-living environment, working together

What is an ecosystem?

200

Name one example of an ecosystem mentioned in the article

What is a tropical rainforest / coral reef / grassland / river / city park?

200

The type of service shown in the diagram as "Things we use!" — food, water, and wood

What are provisioning services?

200

The name for the label "Fig. 1" below the diagram

What is a figure / caption?

200

This signal phrase means the writer is explaining something in a simpler way

What is "in other words"? 

300

The variety of living species found within an ecosystem

What is biodiversity?

300

A single hectare of rainforest may contain hundreds of these

What are tree species?

300

The type of service described as "How the earth stays neat!" in the diagram

What are regulating services?

300

What Fig. 1 shows

What are the four types of ecosystem services working together?

300

This signal word means the writer is giving a more detailed or exact piece of information

What is "specifically"?

400

Plants, animals, fungi, and insects are examples of these things found in an ecosystem

What are living things?

400

The article compares an ecosystem to this — a network of living things connected to each other

What is a web of life?

400

The type of service described as "Fun and learning!" — places for hiking, art, and feeling happy

What are cultural services?

400

The type of text feature that appears in large italic letters between two sections, starting with "Nature provides more than beauty…"

What is a pull quote?

400

This signal phrase tells you the result or conclusion of something

What is "this means"?

500

According to the article, when this is high, an ecosystem is strong and healthy

What is biodiversity?

500

Name two reasons the article gives to explain why the rainforest has very high biodiversity

What are hundreds of tree species and thousands of insects (and dozens of mammals)?

500

The type of service called "The basic help for everything" that keeps the soil good and helps plants grow

What are supporting services?

500

The small italic line directly under the article title that tells you what the article is about

What is a tagline / subtitle / description?

500

This signal phrase, used in the biodiversity paragraph, tells the reader a clarifying example is about to follow


What is "to illustrate"?

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What is "to illustrate"?






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