Vocab 1
What is any living thing made of?
Organisms
What is an organism that is usually a decomposer, some cause illness?
Bacteria
What are tiny living things in water that produce their own food, like plants do?
Algae
What is a set of events that repeats in the same order over and over?
Cycle
What is a type of gas that animals use to breathe and that plants release?
Oxygen
What is a substance that living things need to grow and stay healthy?
Nutrients
What are living things that make its own food?
Producers
What is a group of things that affect each other and function as a whole?
System
What is an important material that exists in the air, soil, and all living things on Earth?
Carbon
What is the air that surrounds a planet called?
Atmosphere
What is a living thing that can break down dead living things?
Decomposer
What are living things that eat other living things?
Consumers
What are all the living things that interact with each other and their environment in one place?
Ecosystem
What is the process of carbon moving through living things and the environment?
Carbon Cycle
What is anything that takes up space; can be in different forms such as solid, liquid, or gas?
Matter
What is a living thing that is a decomposer and has spores, such as a mold or mushroom?
Fungus
What is a material that contains nutrients to help plants grow?
Fertilizer
What is water that moves across a surface, often carrying materials with it?
Runoff
What is a pretend version of something that scientists use when the real thing is too big, small, or complicated to work with?
Model
What is a type of gas that plants sometimes take in and that animals release when they breathe?
Carbon Dioxide
What are tiny, floating living things in water that are smaller than algae and produce their own food, like plants do?
Phytoplankton
What is a quick increase in the number of algae growing in an area?
Algae Bloom
What is it when all the living and nonliving things in a particular place?
Environment
What is it when something that is bad or reduces the chances of success?
Disadvantage
What is something in an experiment that you do not change?
Control