Chapter+3+Review

= WHERE PLANTS AND ANIMALS LIVE = __** Vocabulary: **__
 * __environment__ – everything that surrounds a living thing
 * __ecosystem__ – all the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in a given area
 * __community__ – all the populations that live together in the same place
 * __population__ – all living things of the same kind that live in the same place at the same time
 * __grassland__ – land ecosystem that has many grasses and few trees
 * __desert__ – an ecosystem that gets less than 25 cm of rainfall ayear and it hot and dry
 * __tundra__ – land ecosystem that is cold and dry
 * __wetland__ – low land ecoysystem that is covered by water at least part of the time during the year; marshes and swamps are an example

__** Nonliving things: **__
 * 1) suns rays
 * 2) air
 * 3) water
 * 4) soil

__** Kinds of land ecosystems: **__
 * 1) grassland
 * 2) tundra
 * 3) desert

__** Freshwater ecosystems: **__
 * 1) pond
 * 2) lake
 * 3) river
 * 4) stream

__** Kinds of forests: **__
 * 1) deciduous
 * 2) coniferous
 * 3) tropical


 * __ Main Points of the Chapter: __**
 * Climate is the weather.
 * If a the population of squirrels goes down, the coyote population would go down also.
 * A habitat is the place where a living thing makes its home.
 * A community is larger than a population.
 * The desert is cool at night.
 * A grassland has few trees.
 * Deciduous forests have trees that lose their leaves in the fall.
 * A tundra is the coldest land ecosystem.
 * A rainforest gets lots of rain each year.
 * Most life is found in the top 200 feet of the ocean. There isn’t much life in the deep ocean where it is dark, cold, and has little food.
 * The ocean is not a freshwater ecosystem.
 * Longer roots mean more water for plants.