Ecosystems Vocab Set 2

To protect or save from loss.

• Preserve

• Resources

• Recycle

• Pollution

The protection of things found in nature.

• Conservation

• Pollution

• Recycle

• Resources

Something that can be used for a purpose

• Resources

• Preserve

• Recycle

• Flooding/Erosion

To process in order to regain or reuse materials

• Recycle

• Conservation

• Preserve

• Pollution

When gases, smoke and chemicals are introduced into the environment in large doses that make it harmful for humans, animals and plants.

• Pollution

• Resources

• Survival

• Consumers

A rise of water with no place to go.

• Flooding

• Survival

• Producers

• Consumers

The variety of living things in a given place.

• Diversity

• Survival

• Pollution

• Food Webs

An organism that produces its own food.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Population

• Instinct

Organisms that eat other living things

• Consumer

• Producer

• survival

• extinct

A living thing that feeds on and breaks down plant and animal matter.

• Decomposers

• Consumers

• Producers

• Diversity