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Vocabulary
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Where plants get energy to make food
What is sunlight?
100
Grasshoppers and bison live in this ecosystem.
What is the grassland ecosystem?
100
The ecosystem where oak, maple, and beech trees drop their leaves in the fall.
What is the deciduous forest?
100
Lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams are examples of these ecosystems
What are freshwater ecosystems?
100
Everything that surrounds a living thing.
What is an environment?
200
Sunlight, water, soil, and climate are ____ parts of an ecosystem
What are nonliving parts of an ecosystem?
200
The biggest difference between a desert and a tropical forest
What is how much rain each gets?
200
Where spruce, fir, and pine trees grow.
What is the coniferous forest?
200
The type of water where a whale would live.
What is saltwater?
200
The living and nonliving parts of an environment that interact.
What is an ecosystem?
300
This happens to the number of animals in years when there is little rain.
What is the number decreases?
300

The ecosystem that you would find wolves, caribou, brown bears, and eagles

What is the tundra?

300
T/F Climates where deciduous forests grow are generally warmer than climates of coniferous forests.
What is TRUE
300
A low land that is covered by water at least part of the year.
What is a wetland?
300
All the living things of the same kind that live in the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
400
Plants can be food or shelter for animals.
What are two ways plants in an animals habitat help meet its needs?
400

Why does the tundra have few trees?

Roots cannot grow in frozen soil an there is little rain.

400
Most animals in this type of forest live in trees.
What are tropical forests?
400
The saltwater ecosystem where most life is in the top 200 meters of water.
What is the ocean?
400
All the populations that live together in the same place.
What is a community?
500
This can provide space, water, and sunlight for new plants to grow.
What is a fire?
500
An ecosystem that has hot days but cool or cold nights.
What is a desert?
500
The climate of tropical forests.
What is warm and rainy all year long.
500
T/F The Everglades in south Florida are a large saltwater ecosystem.
What is FALSE
500
A kind of land ecosystem that has many grasses and flowering plants, but few trees.
What is a grassland?