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Characteristics of Ecosystems

Land Ecosystems

Natural Cycles

Natural Resource

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Hodge Podge

Topic 1$100

Populations living in the same environment at the

same time

What is a community?

Topic 1$200

The role of an organism in an ecosystem

What is a niche?

Topic 1$300

All of the biotic and abiotic surroundings of an organism

What is an environment?

Topic 1$400

Many of the same species living together in the same

space

What is a population?

Topic 1$500

Part of the environment in which an organism lives

What is a habitat?

Topic 2$100

Regions of Earth that are defined by their climate and the plants & animals that live

there

What is a biome?

Topic 2$200

Where there is too little rain for trees to become

dominate plants

What are grasslands?

Topic 2$300

Where the dominate plant is broad-leaf trees that shed

their leaves

What is deciduous forest?

Topic 2$400

Where winters are very long and the dominate plants are

conifers

What is taiga?

Topic 2$500

biome with 6-to 10-week growing season, home to the

caribou

What is the tundra?

Topic 3 $100

evaporation, condensation, and precipitation

What is the water cycle?

Topic 3 $200

process in which plants lose water to the air

What is transpiration?

Topic 3 $300

fresh water that falls to Earth’s surface

What is precipitation?

Topic 3 $400

energy from the sun

What is the carbon cycle?

Topic 3 $500

Plant can use nitrogen after it has been converted by-

What is bacteria?

Topic 4 $100

water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, paper,

aluminum, & glass

What are reusable resources?

Topic 4 $200

resources that are not replaceable within a human

life span

What are nonrenewable resources?

Topic 4 $300

caused by burning coal and other fuels into the

atmosphere combined with water vapor

What is acid rain?

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resources that can be used again

What is reusable resources?

Topic 4$500

how animals and plants are protected from hunting and other harmful activities of

people

What is land preservation?

Topic 5$100

nonliving parts of the environment

What is abiotic?

Topic 5$200

process in which water vapor turns into clouds

What is condensation?

Topic 5$300

the saving of natural resources

What is conservation?

Topic 5$400

precipitation that sinks into the ground

What is groundwater?

Topic 5$500

an organism’s surroundings that provide it with what it

needs

What is its environment?