Ecosystems Vocab

To change or adjust to survive due to a change in an environment.

• To adapt

• climate change

• to evolve

• consequence

Everything that surrounds an organism (plants, other organisms, atmosphere).

• organism

• ecosystem

• environment

• biome

A community of living and nonliving things that interact with each other.

• ecosystem

• organism

• habitat

• climate

The average weather conditions in a specific region over a long period of time.

• Habitat

• biome

• climate change

• climate

A negative effect of an event in an ecosystem.

• Ecosystem

• to evolve

• consequence

• habitat

The act of developing and changing over a long period of time.

• To evolve

• To adapt

• organism

• habitat

The environment, or “home” where a organism lives, and where it can find food, water, and shelter.

• ecosystem

• habitat

• environment

• biome

A change in the typical weather for a region over a long period of time (temperature, rain)

• climate

• consequence

• to adapt

• climate change

1. Any living thing (plants, animals, bacteria)

• organism

• to evolve

• habitat climate

A  large area of land or water with a specific climate, landscape, and community of organisms.

• climate

• organism

• environment

• biome