Vocabulary
Food Chains
Ecosystems around the world
producer, consumer, or decomposer?
Instinct or adaptation?
100
What is the living and nonliving things that interact in an environment
an ecosystem
100
What is the beginning group of all food chains?
producers
100
What is the largest ecosystem found on Earth
What is the salt water ecosystems (oceans)
100
mushrooms
What is a decomposer
100
camouflage
What is an adaptation
200
What is a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place
a population
200
What is an animal that is hunted for food
prey
200
What ecosystem would you find a dry climate, sand, and cacti year round?
What is a desert ecosystem
200
grass
What is a producer
200
mimicry or imitating another animal
What is an adaptation
300
What is an overlapping food chain
a food web
300
What is a living thing that gets energy by eating other animals for food
consumers
300
What ecosystem would you normally find many trees, owls, and squirrels and a temperate climate?
What is a temperate deciduous forest ecosystem
300
wolves
What is a consumer
300
migrating south for the winter
What is an instinct
400
What is a behavior that an animal knows without being taught
an instinct
400
What is a living thing that breaks down dead things for food
decomposer
400
What ecosystem would you find both pine and fir trees growing?
What is a coniferous forest
400
bacteria
What is a decomposer
400
hibernating during the winter months
What is an instinct
500
What is a trait that helps a plant or an animal survive
an adaptation
500
What is an animal that hunts another animal for food
predator
500
What is the main cause of destruction in ecosystems around the world?
What are humans
500
vulture
What is a consumer
500
a cactus growing thick, shallow roots to absorb rain water
What is an adaptation
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