Ecosystem Story Vocabulary

the world around us with living and nonliving things.

• ecosystems

• environment

• biome

people, plants, and animals which need food, water, and air to live.

• environment

• community

• living things

people living in a certain place.

• ecosystem

• habitat

• community

the community where plants and animals live.

• ecosystem

• community

• habitat

each plant or animals special home in the ecosystem.

• ecosystem

• habitat

• community

formed by ecosystems that are alive and close together.

• biome

• habitat

• ecosystem

hot and wet, tall trees, monkeys, birds, and snakes.

• grasslands

• desert

• tropical rainforest

warm summers, cold winters, lots of trees, rabbits, deer, and squirrels.

• deciduous forest

• tundra

• grasslands

warm days, cold nights, little rain, grass, grains, cows, sheep, coyotes.

• grasslands

• deciduous forest

• biome

can be very hot, very cold, very dry, little rain, cacti, snakes, lizards.

• desert

• grasslands

• tropical rainforest