| Term | Definition |
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| Deciduous forest | A forest with many, but not only, deciduous trees. There are four seasons and moderate to high precipitation, We live in one! |
| Deciduous tree | A tree that sheds its leaves and grows new ones each year. |
| Evergreen tree | A tree that is green all winter long..they do not loose their leaves all at one time but shed their leaves throughout the year |
| Leaves | Make the food for a tree through photosynthesis |
| Trunk | Provides shape and strength for a tree. "Central Plumbing" |
| Roots | Anchor plant. Absorb water and nutrients from the soil. |
| Bark | Outer layer of trunk and branches. Protects tree from injury and disease. |
| Phloem | Food travels down through this tissue from the leaves to the rest of the tree. |
| Cambium | Layer of the tree which makes new cells which become phloem, cambium, and xylem. |
| Xylem | Water and minerals travels up through this tissue from the roots to the rest of the plant. |
| Heartwood | Dead cells which provide support for a tree. The center of the tree. |
| Climate | The average weather conditions in a region over a long period of time. |
| Weather | Atmospheric conditions (temperature, wind, clouds, precipitation...) at a certain time in a particular place. |
| Organism | A living thing. |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things an organism food, water and shelter |
| Biotic factor | The living parts of a habitat. |
| Abiotic factor | The non-living parts of a habitat such as water, sunlight, oxygen, temperature, and soil. |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
| Consumer | An organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms. |
| Herbivore | Consumer that eats only plants. |
| Carnivore | Consumer that eats only meat. |
| Omnivore | Consumer that eats both plants and meat. |
| Decomposer | Break down wastes and dead organisms. Return raw materials to the ecosystem. |
| Scavenger | Carnivores that feed off the bodies of dead animals. |
| Food chain | Show one path that energy can move through an ecosystem. |
| Food web | Show many paths that energy can move through an ecosystem. Made up of overlapping food chains. |
| Competition | The struggle between organisms for the same limited resource such as food, water, and shelter. |
| Predation | When one organism kills another organism for food. |
| Symbiosis | Relationship between two species that benefits at least one species. |
| Adaptation | Something (behavior or characteristic) an organism does that allows the organism to live successfully in its environment. |
| Predator | The consumer that kills another consumer for food. |
| Prey | The organism that is killed by another organism for food. |
| Limiting factor | An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease. |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population an area can support. |
| Biosphere | All the living parts of the world where living things are found. Made up of all the biomes. |
| Biome | A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms. |
| Ecosystem | One or more communities that interact with each other and the non-living things in the environment. |
| Community | All the populations of species living together. |
| Population | A group of organisms from the same species living in a specific area. |
| Canopy layer | Layer of the forest made up of the tops of the tallest trees. |
| Understory layer | Layer of the forest shaded by the canopy and made up of small tree, saplings, and other shrubs and shrub like plants. |
| Litter layer | Layer of the forest made up of the forest floor - leaves, twigs, logs, grasses, etc. |
| Underground layer | Layer of the forest where the roots of plants find nutrients and water. There are also may animals and animal homes there. |
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