Ecosystem Restoration Vocabulary PDF
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This document provides definitions of key terms related to ecosystems. It covers concepts such as argument, claim, data, decomposer, ecologist, ecosystem, energy, environment, and others. The vocabulary is suitable for a secondary school science curriculum.
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## Ecosystem Restoration Vocabulary 1. **argument**: the use of evidence to say why one idea is the best 2. **claim**: a proposed answer to a question 3. **data**: observations or measurements recorded in an investigation 4. **decomposer**: an organism that breaks down droppings or dead organisms...
## Ecosystem Restoration Vocabulary 1. **argument**: the use of evidence to say why one idea is the best 2. **claim**: a proposed answer to a question 3. **data**: observations or measurements recorded in an investigation 4. **decomposer**: an organism that breaks down droppings or dead organisms 5. **ecologist**: a scientist who studies ecosystems 6. **ecosystem**: a community of organisms together with its environment 7. **energy**: the ability to make things move or change 8. **environment**: all the living and nonliving things in an area 9. **evidence**: information that supports an answer to a question 10. **food web**: a diagram that shows what eats what in an ecosystem 11. **matter**: the stuff that things are made of 12. **model**: something scientists make to answer questions about the real world 13. **molecule**: a group of atoms joined together in a particular way 14. **nutrient**: something taken in by plants and animals that helps them grow 15. **observe**: to use any of the five senses to gather information about something 16. **organism**: a living thing, such as a plant or an animal 17. **restoration**: the process of returning something to its original condition by fixing or repairing it 18. **soil**: a mixture of rocks, water, air, parts of dead organisms, and tiny living organisms
