| Term | Definition |
|---|
| environment | The surroundings in which an organism lives |
| niche | The job or role an organism takes on in its environment |
| biotic | Everything that is alive or ever was alive in an environment |
| abiotic | all of the nonliving things in an environment |
| ecosystem | All of the biotic and abiotic factors in an envrionment |
| community | All of the different species of organisms living in one area at the same time |
| habitat | The place where an organism lives and gets all of its needs met. (food, shelter, water, etc.) |
| biome | Areas of the world that have similar climate, plant, and animal life |
| deciduous forest | A biome with four seasons, plants shed leaves in the fall and grow new ones in the spring. |
| grassland | A biome that is fairly dry. There is not enough water for trees to survive but grasses grow well here. |
| taiga | A biome that has cold long winters and a short growing season. Conifers grow well in this area. |
| tundra | An extremely cold biome, the land is frozen most of the year. Only small shrubs and low growing plants survive here |
| desert | This biome gets very little water. Trees and grasses do not grow well here. Tends to be hot days and cold nights. |
| tropical rainforest | In this biome it rains almost everyday. Temperatures are high with little difference between day and night temperatures. There are more organisms living here than anywhere else on Earth. |
| temperate climate | A climate with four seasons. Cold winters and hot summers. |
| latitude | How far north or south of the equator something is located. |
| population | all of the members of a single species living within an area |
| adaptation | A behavior or body structure that allows an organism to survive. |
| climate | Refers to weather patterns over a long period of time (Temperature, precipitation, the amount of sunlight etc.) |
| conifer | A pine tree or evergreen tree. |
| herbivore | plant eater |
| omnivore | Eats both plants and meat |
| first order or primary consumer | First link in the food chain, plant eater |
| 2nd order or secondary consumer | Second link in the food chain, meat eater |
| top of the food chain | An organism that hunts others but does not get hunted |
| prey | The hunted organism |
| food chain | Shows how energy is passed from one organism to another |
| food web | Overlapping food chains |
| energy pyramid | A diagram showing the amount of energy that flows through an ecosystem |
| carnivore | meat eater |
| producer | An organism that makes its own food |
| consumer | An organism that eats other organisms |
| decomposer | An organism that gets energy from breaking down animal wastes and dead organisms |
| scavenger | An organism that eats the remains of dead animals |
| predator | An organism that hunts other organisms |
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