Plant Survival
These are pores at the bottom of leaves that open and close to let in air or give off water vapor.
Stomata
This is an animal eaten by other animals.
Prey
This is an organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material.
Decomposer
This is the part of Earth in which living things exist and interact.
Biosphere.
This is is an organism that cannot make its own food.
Consumer
This is the release of water vapor through stomata of a plant.
Transpiration
This is a living thing in an ecosystem, such as a plant, an animal, or a bacterium.
Biotic factor.
These are plant-like organisms that get energy from other organisms which may be living or dead.
Fungi
This is the layers of solid and molten rock, dirt, and soil on Earth.
Geosphere
This is the path that energy and nutrients follow among living things in an ecosystem.
Food chain.
This is the tissue through which food from the leaves moves throughout the rest of a plant.
Phloem
This is an animal that hunts another animal for food.
Predator
How do we know that fungi are not plants?
They cannot make their own food.
This is Earth’s water, including oceans, underground freshwater, glaciers, lakes, and rivers.
The Hydrosphere
This is an organism that uses energy from the Sun to make its own food.
Producer
This is the plant tissue through which water and minerals move up from the roots.
Xylem
This is an organism that is introduced to a new ecosystem and causes harm.
Invasive species.
This is the continuous circulation of nitrogen from air to soil to organisms and back to air or soil.
Nitrogen cycle.
This is the layer in the atmosphere where you will find planes avoiding the weather, weather balloons, and the ozone layer.
Stratosphere
This is the movement of energy from one organism to another in a food chain or food web.
Energy flow.
Why is it advantageous if vines grow in the trees?
There is more sunlight.
This is a place where plants and animals live.
Habitat
What would happen if there were no decomposers?
Dead material would pile up.
This is a hot layer of the Earth made up of melted iron and nickel, and generates a magnetic field.
Outer core.
What must every food chain and food web begin with?
The sun.