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If you like, feel free to write a paragraph using six to seven of the vocabulary items and post it to your blog.Presentation on Great Lakes
By Shintu Cherian, Coordinator, Multicultural Environmental Stewardship Program
Vocabulary for reference
Bioaccumulation: the term used to describe how an animal stores
harmful substances or chemicals (such as pesticides) in the body.
Consumer: Organism that eats other organisms for food
Decomposer: An organism that obtains energy from decaying
organic material.
Drainage Basin: It is an extent of land where water from rain or snow
melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, dam,
estuary, wetland, sea or ocean.A drainage basin acts like a funnel
collecting all the water within the area covered by the basin and
channeling it into a waterway.
Ecosystem: A group/community of organisms interacting with their
environment.
Endangered Species: Animals or Plants facing possible extinction
in the wild (the danger of no longer existing in the wild)
Food chain: The feeding relationships of species that transfer energy
through the organisms in a community.
Food web: The complex interconnection of food chains in an
ecosystem.
Habitat: The local environment in which a specified organism,
population, or species lives, characterized by physical and chemical
features, and the presence of certain other species.
Lake: Body of water larger and deeper than a pond
Non native species: Plants and animals that are not native to an
environment, introduced intentionally or accidentally. When these
plants or animals out compete and crowd out native species for
space, light, and nutrients, they are considered to be invasive.
Ocean: The large body of salt water surrounding the great continents
or land masses, and divided by the land masses into several distinct
portions, each of which is called an ocean. The Atlantic, Pacific,
Indian and Arctic Oceans
Plankton: Microscopic plants and animals floating in the sea or fresh
water, including larvae of larger creatures. They are at the bottom of
the food chain, being eaten by filter feeders and larger larvae.
Pesticides: Chemicals used to prevent insects and other crops from
destroying crops.
Pollution: Human and natural contamination of the environment by
chemicals or heat energy to the extent that existing habitats are
threatened or populations of organisms are endangered.
Population: A group of organisms of the same species that live in
the same area at the same time
Predator: An organism that kills and consumes another organism
(prey); includes animals eating other animals, and animals eating
plants.
Prey: An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
Producer: An organism that makes its own food
River: A natural stream of water with a large volume
Sea: A large body of water but smaller than on ocean
Solar energy: Energy from the Sun in the form of light and heat
energy.
Threatened Species: are animals or plants that are likely to be
endangered if factors threatening it are not reversed or removed.
Water cycle: The process, involving evaporation and condensation,
by which the Earth's water circulates through the environment.
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