Vocabulary Interactions in Ecosystems

The movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen on Earth by photosynthesis and respiration (breathing)

• Water Cycle

• Earth Cycle

• Carbon dioxide/Oxygen Cycle

• Air Cycle

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A gas produced by plants during photosynthesis that animals use for respiration (breathing)

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Nitrogen

• Carbon

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A gas produced by animals during respiration that plants use to make food and oxygen

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Water Vapor

• Hydrogen

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The process where plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce food and release oxygen

• Water Cycle

• Carbon dioxide/Oxygen Cycle

• Photosythesis

• Respiration

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A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment

• Community

• Oxygen

• Biotic

• Ecosystem

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Part of an ecosystem like a plant that requires energy to survive and has basic needs that must be met

• Living/Biotic

• Nonliving/Abiotic

• Photosynthesis

• Thrive

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Part of an ecosystem that is not living, such as sunlight, air, water, soil

• Living/Biotic

• Nonliving/Abiotic

• Organized

• Ecosystem

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A single living thing

• Element

• Thrive

• Interact

• Organism

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To come together and have an effect on each other

• Ecosystem

• Organisms

• Interact

• Thrive

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Live well, flourish

• Perish

• Thrive

• Photosynthesis

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