Ecosystems - A community of interacting organisms and their environment. Living things interact with each other, and also with non-living things like soil, water and air., Botanist - A scientist that studies plants., Nectar - A sweet, sugary liquid made inside flowers. Insects and hummingbirds feed on., Rainforest - An area densely packed with lots of different kinds of plants, tall trees and animals. ________________ get a lot of rain (about 100 inches of rain per year). All that rain allows lots of different plants to grow and lots of animals live near those plants. ___________________ also produce a lot of oxygen that humans breathe and scientists estimate that there are millions of different kinds of living things still undiscovered in _______________________., Invasive species - Living things not naturally found in that ecosystem. They usually cause damage or throw off the balance of the natural ecosystem., Living things - Anything living such as an animal, plant, insect, bacteria, etc., Nonliving things - Anything that doesn’t grow and reproduce such as rocks, soil, air or water., Algae - A living thing similar to a plant that is usually found growing in water. They produce their own food through photosynthesis like plants do, but algae have no leaves, stems or roots., Terrarium - A closed container of plants and other living things that shows you how an ecosystem works., Bacteria - Tiny living things that are everywhere around us. We can only see them with a very powerful microscope. They come in different shapes such as rods, spirals, and spheres. Bacteria are important in an ecosystem to break down dead and decaying matter.,

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