Josh's super duper Vocab
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- Extinction
- no longer active; extinguished
- Producer
- green plants and lichens which produce their own food from sunlight, water and CO2
- Environment
- the totality of surrounding conditions
- Prey
- an animal taken by a predator as food
- Carnivore
- a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
- Tundra
- a biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.
- Biotic
- of or relating to living organisms
- Omnivore
- an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances
- Biosphere
- the part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.
- Vertebrate
- have a spinal column
- Decomposer
- an organism that gets its food energy from dead parts of other organisms
- Consumer
- one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in.
- Ecology
- studies the relationships that living things have with each other and with the environment in which they live.
- Herbivore
- an animal that feeds chiefly on plants
- Recycling
- the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
- Abiotic
- nonliving elements that impact the growth, composition, and structure of the forest
- Photosynthesis
- the process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using.
- Invertebrate
- any animal lacking a backbone or notochord
- Predator
- an organism that lives by preying on other organisms
- Ecosystem
- a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment