Food chain
This is always the first organism in a food chain.
producer
Plants take in this gas from the air for photosynthesis.
Carbon dioxide
An animal that kills and eats other animals.
Predator
Harmful substances added to the environment.
Pollution
All the members of one species living in an area.
Population
This is the name for an animal that eats only plants.
Herbivore
This process uses oxygen and releases carbon dioxide back into the air.
Respiration
An animal that is hunted and eaten by a predator.
Prey
The destruction of forests by humans.
Deforestation
The place where an organism lives.
Habitat
This is the name for an animal that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
These organisms, like fungi and bacteria, break down dead things.
Decomposers
A cactus has a thick, fleshy stem to store this.
Water
The gradual warming of the Earth's surface.
All the living and non-living things in an area, and how they interact.
Ecosystem
This shows the transfer of energy from one organism to another.
food chain
Plants need this substance from the soil to make proteins.
Nitrate
These are the special pores on a leaf that allow gases to move in and out.
Stoma
The main cause of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Burning the fossil fuels
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
Consumer
This diagram shows all the interconnected food chains in an ecosystem
Food web
This gas, needed for respiration, is produced by plants.
Oxygen
Animals struggle against each other for limited resources like food and space.
Competetion
These human-made chemicals were found to be destroying the ozone layer.
CFC(Chlorofluorocarbons)
Many countries signed this agreement to stop using CFCs and protect the ozone layer.
Montreal Protocol