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There are lots of big, tricky words that you will come across while you are learning about seagrass. To help you on your way, we have created this page that contains tricky words and their meanings. Click on the letter of the alphabet that your word starts with or scroll down the page to see all the words. |
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| Abiotic
or physical factors |
| The non-living parts of the environment eg. water, sunlight, rocks, soil. |
| Adaptation. |
| Characteristics which enable a living thing to survive in its particular habitat |
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| Biotic
or living components |
| Animals, plants and microorganisms found in an ecosystem |
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| Carnivore |
| An animal that feeds only on meat |
| Chlorophyll |
| The green pigment, found in most plants, which traps energy from the sunlight and makes photosyhthesis possible. |
| Community |
| A number of different types of living things living in the same habitat. |
| Consumer |
| Something that eats a producer or other consumers. |
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Decomposers |
| The very bottom of the food chain which break down the producers and consumers. |
| Detritus |
| Seagrass is a decaying (or dying) state. |
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Ecologist. |
| A person that studies living things in relation to each other and where they live |
| Ecosystem |
| An ecosystem is made up of many habitats. It has living and non-living things that interact with each other. |
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Environment |
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The surrounding influences, physical conditions ot circumstances of anything. |
| Exoskeleton |
| An external skeleton on a creature. This may be hard like those of a crab or thin like those on ants. |
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| Food
Chain |
| A chain of organisms in which energy is passed from one organism to the one that eats it. For example a turtle eats seagrass and receives energy from it. |
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Web |
| Shows a number of connected food chains. It shows the feeding relationships and transfers of energy that occur between producers, consumers, including decomposers.Food webs continually change due to certain speices leaving the area, new speices arriving and the population of other species changing. Changes in physical factors also affect the food web. |
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Habitat
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| The living place of organisms. |
| Herbivore |
| An animal that feeds only on plants. |
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| Marine |
| Existing
in or produced by the sea-marine life. |
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| Nature |
| The essential character of something. |
| Nutrients |
| Substances that keep living things healthy. |
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| Organism |
| Any living thing. |
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| Photosynthesis |
| The process by which green plants make carbohydrates from water and carbon from water and carbon dioxide using the energy that is absorbed by chlorphyll from sunlight. |
| Population |
| A group of living things of the same kind living in a given area at the same time. |
| Predator |
| An animal that hunts or preys upon others. |
| Prey |
| An animal that is hunted or killed for food. |
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Producer |
| A producer is something that produces its own food. |
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| Rhizome |
| An underground stem which is an organ of vegetative reproduction. |
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| Scientist |
| A person skilled or trained in science. |
| Symbiosis |
| The living of two speices or organisms. |
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