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Plants and Ecosystems
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4th Grade
06/02/2011

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Adaptation
Definition
a characteristic that an organism has to help it survive in its environment
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Carnivore
Definition
an organism that eats or preys on other animals to survive in the ecosystem.
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Chlorophyll
Definition
a green pigment found in most plants that helps with photosynthesis
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Decomposer
Definition
an organism that breaks down dead plant and animal matter
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Ecosystem
Definition
a community of living things in an area working together with the non-living things of the environment
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Food Chain
Definition
a pathway showing how energy from the sun travels from one organism to the next organism
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Food web
Definition
more than one food chain connected with other food chains in an ecosystem
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Herbivore
Definition
an organism that eats plants to survive in an ecosystem
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Omnivore
Definition
an organism that eats both plants and animals to survive in an ecosystem
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Organism
Definition
any living thing
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Phloem
Definition
tubes that transport sugars and nutrients from leaves to the rest of the plant
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Photosynthesis
Definition
a process which plants use sunlight to make sugar and oxygen by combining carbon dioxide with water
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Producer
Definition
an organism that can make its own food (sugar) to survive in an ecosystem
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xylem
Definition
tubes that transport water from the roots to the rest of the plant
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