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- Some abiotic factors in the ecosystem are trees, fish, and squirrels.
- Abiotic factors, like climate, precipitation, and amount of sunlight are important for the organisms that live there.
- My mom put lots of abiotic factors in my lunch today.
- Don't forget the abiotic factors when you are doing your math homework.
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- The adaptation of a bird makes it lay eggs.
- Adaptations are important because they give oxygen to living things.
- Some animals have special adaptations to help them survive in their environments, like webbed feet for ducks or white fur for polar bears.
- I didn't know how to ride a bike, but my dad taught me the adaptation I needed.
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- Some biotic factors in a pond environment are water lillies, goldfish, and turtles
- Biotic factors make robots move very fast.
- Some biotic factors are rain, heat, and soil.
- I had biotic factors for dinner last night.
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- The carbon cycle helps plants take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide.
- Carbon cycles are easy to ride because they have 4 wheels.
- During the carbon cycle, plants give off oxygen and take in carbon dioxide, while animals take in the oxygen and breathe out the carbon dioxide.
- My dad had a carbon cycle once.
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- Carnivores are animals that eat plants and other animals.
- I love to play the games at the carnivore.
- Giraffes are carnivores and like to eat the leaves at the top of tall trees.
- Hunting birds like hawks and falcons are carnivores.
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- Some animals store up fat in the spring and summer because they hibernate in the winter.
- When animals hibernate, they are hunting for food.
- Plants hibernate to take in water they need to grow.
- Animals will hibernate when they need to find water and food.
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- A limiting factor is always an odd number.
- Limiting factors in an ecosystem are water, soil, and sunlight.
- All animals and plants need limiting factors or they will grow too large.
- Limiting factors like climate or shopping malls can affect where animals make their homes.
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- Nitrogen cycles cause water to go into the air as water vapor and fall to the earth as rain.
- I had a nitrogen cycle once, but the handlebars fell off.
- The nitrogen cycle is an important way for plants and animals to get the nitrogen they need to grow.
- In the nitrogen cycle, plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.
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- My mom says I'm nocturnal because I like to stay up all night on the weekends
- Nocturnal animals sleep all winter.
- Sometimes plants are nocturnal and they only grow during the dark hours.
- Nocturnal animals hunt in the bright light of day.
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- Falcons are omnivores because they only eat small animals.
- My sister is an omnivore because she is a vegetarian and only eats vegetables and fruit.
- Some animals, like bears, are omnivores, and eat plants and animals.
- Omnivores are people who can write with either hand.
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- Chickens are producers because they make their own food.
- Producers, like grass and trees, are the beginning of the food chain.
- My mom is a producer because she makes my dinner.
- Producers, like cows and rabbits, like to eat grass.
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- Animals that are consumers make their own food.
- Consumers, like grass and flowers, have many blossoms in the spring.
- Animals are consumers, and eat plants, other animals, or both.
- Consumers are animals that live in the desert.
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- My mom says I should always remember to prey before bedtime.
- I would just love to have the chance to be something's prey.
- Eagles and hawks have sharp talons to help them grab their prey.
- Prey, like cactus and sand, are in the desert.
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- A community is all of the plants, animals, insects, and fish that live in a habitat.
- The community of butterflies migrate from place to place.
- A community is all of the same species living in one place.
- The community is the land, climate, animals, and precipation of a place.
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- Mom put the left-over dinner down the decomposer.
- Without decomposers, our world would be filled with dead plants and animals.
- The job of the decomposer is to make food for the community.
- Decomposers, like rabbits, can eat all of the vegetables in your garden in one night.
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- I like ecology, because rocks and minerals are so pretty.
- I want to go to University of Houston. It's my favorite ecology.
- I really liked our unit on ecology. Studying the earth and it's habitats was very interesting.
- My mom reads her horoscope every day. She's very interested in ecology.
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- Oil and trash in the ocean will destroy the marine ecosystem and kill the plants and animals that live there.
- All ecosystems are exactly the same.
- In a pond ecosystem, cactus and scorpions are easily spotted.
- The ecosystem is whether there is salt water or fresh water in a habitat.
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- My baby sister made a food chain with her Cheerios this morning.
- All food chains begin with the Sun's energy.
- The food chain includes all of the plants and animals in an ecosystem.
- The Sun isn't really important to the food chain.
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- Spiders have the ability to spin a food web to catch their food.
- The food web tells us how much we should eat everyday from each of the different food groups.
- All of the producers and consumers in an ecosystem make up a food web.
- Only consumers who eat other consumers are in the food web.
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- My dog has the bad habitat of eating my shoes!
- Cactus and scorpions live in a rainforest habitat.
- An animal's habitat is what it eats.
- A rainforest habitat is hot and wet.
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- An organism's "job" in its ecosystem is it's niche.
- A worm's niche in the ecosystem is to be a producer.
- I love my new shoes. Niche brand is my favorite.
- A bear's niche in the forest is in a cave.
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- All of the species living in a particular area is a population.
- All of the plants and animals living in a habitat and interacting with each other is a population.
- A population begins with the Sun, then to producers, and consumers.
- Populations like to eat only plants.
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- The poor little rabbit was eaten by the big mean predator.
- Predators are the first level of the food chain.
- The job of a predator is to break down dead plants and animals.
- The zebra was a predator because it ate the grass.
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- Herbivores are animals that like to eat other animals.
- Since my grandmother likes to grow herbs in her garden, she is a herbivore.
- Animals like rabbits, giraffes, and horses are herbivores, since they eat only plants.
- Herbivores grow in forests and on the plains.
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- Scavengers provide the energy for the food chain.
- If there were no scavengers in an ecosytem, then the plants would grow more.
- Scavengers are animals that eat other animals.
- It's a good thing we have scavengers, or we would have dead animals all over the place!