HABITAT A habitat is the ____ of an animal or a plant. The main habitats found on ____ are grasslands, forests, deserts, oceans, wetlands and polar regions. COMMUNITY The animals and ____ that live ____ in a habitat form a community. SPECIES A ____ of animals or plants that all ____ common characteristics and can produce ____ (e.g. human beings are a species). POPULATION A group of ____ (animals and/or plants) who live in the same ____ at the same ____. ADAPTATION A ____ (e.g. gills), feature (e.g. camouflage) or ____ (e.g. shooting a spray) that helps a plant or animal ____ in its environment. ORGANISM Any ____ thing such as a plant or ____. PHOTOSYNTHESIS The way that ____ use water, light and carbon dioxide to create their own ____ and release ____ into the air. CARNIVORE Any animal that eats ____ as the ____ part of its diet. HERBIVORE Any animal that eats only ____. OMNIVORE An animal which is able to eat both ____ and ____. DEPLETION Depletion usually happens when there are not enough ____ (such as food, water, space etc.) to support the plants and animals in the ____. EXTINCTION The name for when an entire ____ of animal or plant dies out. Once a species becomes ____, it is gone forever. FOOD CHAIN Diagram that shows how each living thing gets ____, and how energy is passed from creature to ____. PRODUCER Plants are the producers at the ____ of every food chain. All energy comes from the ____ and plants are the ones who make food with that ____ through the process of photosynthesis. CONSUMER The ____ link in a food chain. They eat the ____. There are three types of consumers; herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. DECOMPOSER The ____ part in a food chain. Whenever something that was alive dies, the decomposers break down ____ in the dead material and return them to the ____. CARRYING CAPACITY The ____ of a species that can sustainably live in a given ____. For example, the carrying capacity of a rabbit population in a forest would mean the maximum number of rabbits that can be supported by that forest’s resources (food, water, space, air). FOOD WEB The interconnection of many different ____ in a natural ____. NICHE Each ____ occupies a niche in a community. A niche is the ____ the species plays, and includes what it eats, who ____ it, and where it lives.

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