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Environment
Environment
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Science
3rd Grade
04/08/2009

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Term
Forest
Definition
An area where the main plants are trees.
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Population
Definition
A group of the same kind of living things that live in the same place at the same time.
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Community
Definition
Populations that live in the same place.
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Ecosystem
Definition
The interactions between the living and nonliving parts of the environment.
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Habitat
Definition
Provides a population with all its needs and includes nonlving things and living things.
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Freshwater ecosystems
Definition
Rivers and most lakes.
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Deciduous Forest
Definition
Have warm summers and cool winters. The trees drop their leaves in fall.
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Tropical Rain Forest and Coastal Rain Forest
Definition
Two types of forests that get a lot of rain.
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Environment
Definition
Everything that surrounds a living thing.
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Coniferious Forest
Definition
The winters are cold in this forest and the trees have needle-shaped leaves.
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Salt Water
Definition
Water in the seas and oceans.
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Grasslands
Definition
Have hot summers and cold winers.
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Deserts
Definition
Can be hot and cold and is usually very dry.
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Grasslands
Definition
Have few large trees because the soil is too dry.
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Decomposer
Definition
Feeds on the wastes of other living things.
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Grasslands
Definition
Have hot summers and cold winers.
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Prey
Definition
A fish or an animal that is hunted and eaten by another consumer.
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Food Chain
Definition
The path of food in an ecosystem.
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Producer
Definition
A living thing that makes its own food.
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Consumer
Definition
A living thing that eats other living things.
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Omnivores
Definition
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
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Food Web
Definition
Several linked food chains.
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Herbivores
Definition
Consumers that eat only plants.
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Predator
Definition
An animal that hunts its food.
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Energy Pyramid
Definition
A model of how energy moves through a food web.
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Carnivores
Definition
Consumers that eat only animals.
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