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Discovering Vocabulary

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Environment• Everything that surrounds a living thing.

• Did you know that the word environment comes from a French word meaning “to circle; to surround.”

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Ecosystem• All the living

and nonliving things that interact with each other in a given area.

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Community

• All the populations that live together in the same place.

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Population

• All the living things of the same kind that live in the same place at the same time.

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grassland

Land ecosystem that has many grasses and few trees.

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desert

• An ecosystem that gets less than 25cm of rainfall a year.

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tundra

• Land ecosystem that is cold and dry.

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wetland

• Low land ecosystem that is covered by water at least part of the time during the year; marshes and swamps are wetlands.

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producers

• Living things that make their own food.

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consumer

• Living things that eat food.

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herbivore

• Living things that eat only plants

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carnivore

• Living things that hunt other animals for food.

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omnivore

• Living things that eat plants and other animals for food.

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prey

• Any animal that is hunted for by others for food.

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predator

• A consumer that hunts other animals for food.

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competition

• Struggle that happens when two or more than living things need the same resource.

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decomposer

• A living thing that breaks down waste and things that have died.

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decay

• To break down, or rot

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germs

• Small living things that include bacteria and viruses, many of which can cause illness.

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disease

• The name we give an illness