Group 1: ecosystem, food chain, food web, freshwater, glacier, habitat, invasive species, non-point-source pollution, point-source pollution, pollutant, pollution, runoff, sediment, toxic chemical, watershed, Group 2: community of all the living things in an area and the environment in which they live, food chain is a series of plants and animals, each of which depends on the one below it for food. A food chain usually forms part of a much larger food web., the feeding relationships within an ecosystem. Each living thing in a food web provides food energy to other living things within that ecosystem., made up of water that is fresh, not salty. This term is also used to describe creatures that live in fresh water, such as freshwater fish, a large mass of ice found near Earth’s poles (continental glacier) or in a high, cold mountain valley (alpine glacier), the natural environment in which a plant or animal lives, nonnative plants and animals that invade an ecosystem, pollution that does not come from a single location, but rather from many sources such as runoff from farms, water pollution from a single place, such as a discharge pipe at a plant that treats sewage, something that pollutes, or damages, air, soil, or water, damage to the natural environment caused by harmful substances; also refers to harmful substances, water from rainfall that is not absorbed into the soil and instead flows into streams or lakes, bits of soil left in a place by moving water, a chemical that is poisonous to humans or other living things, a geographic area that includes all of the land and waterways that drain into a body of water. Sometimes a watershed is also called a drainage basin.watersheda geographic area that includes all of the land and waterways that drain into a body of water. Sometimes a watershed is also called a drainage basin.,

TCI vocab-lesson 18

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