Ecosystems
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A mixture of rocks, water, air, parts of dead things.

What is soil?

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A community of living things.

What is an ecosystem?

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Salt water, creatures that use gills to breath, plants.

What is the ocean?

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To use your five senses to gather information about something.

What is observe?

200

A group of atoms.

What is a molecule?

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This type of molecule is needed for a living thing to grow.

What are food molecules.

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A living thing, such as a plan or animal.

What is an organism?

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Fresh water, algae, fish, frogs, insects, plants.

What is a pond?

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Information that supports an answer to a question.

What is evidence?

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The smallest unit of a chemical element.

What is an atom.

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All living things need these.

What is air, water, food?

300

A scientist who studies ecosystems.

What is an ecologist?

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Lack of water, dry climate, cactus, jackrabbits, roadrunners, coyotes.

What is a desert?

300

A diagram that shows what eats what in an ecosystem.

What is a food web?

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The smaller of the two: molecule, atom.

What is an atom?

400

Scientists make this to help answer questions in the real world.

What is a model?

400

The ability to make things move.

What is energy?

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Cold temperatures, shrubs, grasses, arctic foxes and wolves. 

What is a tundra?

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An organism that breaks down droppings or dead organism.

What is a decomposer?

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Everything is made of this.

What is matter?

500

Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation.

What is data?

500

To put together multipl pieces of information in order to understand something.

What is synthesize?

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Heavy rain, large plants, tropical animals.

What is a rainforest?

500

The process of returning something to its original condition by fixing or repairing it.

What is restoration?