Life Science VOCAB

When humans cut down trees in a forest; usually due to construction

• deciduous forest

• rainforest

• grasslands

• deforestation

Great variety of plants and animals in an ecosystem

• abiotic

• biodiversity

• single celled

• multicelled

Refers to living things in an ecosystem

• biodiversity

• biotic

• abiotic

• buzzard

Refers to non-living things in an ecosystem

• Deforestation

• Climate Change

• Biotic

• Abiotic

 An ecosystem made of water

• Terrestrial Ecosystem

• Biotic Ecosystem

• Aquatic Ecosystem

• Forest Ecosystem

An ecosystem made up of land

• Aquatic Ecosystem

• Biotic Ecosystem

• Terrestrial Ecosystem

• Marine Ecosystem

Freshwater ecosystem that is larger and deeper than a pond; still water

• lake

• river

• estuary

• swamp

Freshwater ecosystem that is smaller and shallower than a lake; water stands still; no movement

• pond

• river

• esturary

• ocean

Where a fresh water (river) and salt water (ocean) meet; nursery; filters

• ocean

• estuary

• marine

• swamp

Wetland where ocean water floods the land near ocean

• salt marsh

• swamp

• lake

• pond