Ecology for Kids vocabulary

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What are the environments that animals and plants live in?

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Habitats

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What does it mean to have an influence on something?

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Affect

Front

What do we call a group of plants or animals that are alike?

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Species

Front

What term describes living things such as plants or animals?

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Organisms

Front

What is energy in the form of rays or waves called?

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Radiation

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What is the term for the variety of different species in an area?

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Biodiversity

Front

What do we call the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight?

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Photosynthesis

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What is the term for a place where an organism lives and grows?

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Habitat

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What do we call the relationship between two different species living in close physical proximity?

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Symbiosis

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What is the term for the role or function of an organism in its ecosystem?

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