Lee Lee 5th grade ecosystem vocabulary

Any kind of living thing typically lacking locomotive movement or obvious nervous or sensory organs and possessing a cellulose cell wall.

• Plants

• Predator

• Prey

• Niche

An organism that feeds on another.

• Plant

• Predator

• Prey

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In a feeding relationship, the (a)   is the animal that is killed and eaten by the other.

Includes all of the living things(plants, animals, and organisms) in a given area, interacting with each other, and also with their non-living environments (weather, earth, Sun, soil, climate, atmosphere)

• Territory

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Habitat

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All living things in a certain area

(a)  

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Plot of land controlled by a specific animal

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Territory

• Habitat

A species at risk of extinction because of human activity, changes in climate, changes in predator-prey ratios, etc.

(a)  

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The loss of an entire species of of animals

• Endangered

• Competition

• Extinct

• Symbiosis

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A term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem

• Nook

• Niche

• Parasite

• Energy

The struggle among organisms for limited resources

(a)  

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