8.1 -8.3 Vocabulary

carnivore

• an animal that eats meat

• an animal that eats plants

• a plant

• an ecosystem

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herbivore

• an animal that eats meat

• an animal that eats plants

• a plant

• an ecosystem

diversity

• all different kinds

• all the same

• a kind of animal

• a desert biome

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producer

• creates their own energy

• an animal that eats other animals

• rainfall

• gains energy by eating

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terrestrial

• water

• land

• plant

• animal

aquatic

• animals

• water

• land

• plants

What do you call the surroundings on Earth that include every living and nonliving thing?

• community

• biome

• population

• ecosystem

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What is an ecosystem?

• A community made up of only nonliving things.

• A community made up of only living things.

• A community made up of all of the living and nonliving things in an area.

• A system that economists use to make money.

Anything that is not and has not been alive

• abiotic

• biotic

• organism

• person

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The community of all living things and nonliving things in an area

• population

• ecosystem

• culture

• development

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