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The Environment
Burtt's Ecosystems C1
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3rd Grade
07/21/2011

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salt water
Definition
water that has a lot of salt in it
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extinct
Definition
describes a species that is gone forever because all of its kind have died
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species
Definition
a name that identifies a specific kind of organism
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endangered
Definition
in danger of becoming extinct
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threatened
Definition
on the way to becoming endangered or extinct
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ecosystem
Definition
the living and nonliving things in an environment
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population
Definition
a group of the same kind of living thing that all live in one place at the same time
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community
Definition
all the populations of organisms that live in an ecosystem
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habitat
Definition
the place where a population lives in an ecosystem
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forest
Definition
an area in which the main plants are trees
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desert
Definition
an ecosystem where there is very little rain
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grassland
Definition
an ecosystem made up of large, flat areas of land that are covered with grass
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freshwater
Definition
water that has very little salt in it
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tundra
Definition
one of the huge plains in the arctic regions of North America, Europe, and Asia. Trees do not grow on tundra.
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