Vocabulary
Food Chains
Potpourri
producer, consumer, or decomposer?
Biotic or Abiotic?
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 are consumers called that eat only plants?
What are herbivores?
100
mushrooms
What is a decomposer
100

Water

What is an abiotic?

200

What is a group of biotic (living) factors within an area?

a community

200

What are the arrows that connect each organism to its food source? 

Feeding links 

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

Mushrooms

What is biotic? 

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 are consumers called that eat both plants and animals?
What are omnivores
300
wolves
What is a consumer
300

Temperature

What is abiotic? 

400

What is a series of steps that repeat over and over again? 

a cycle

400

What is a living thing that breaks down dead things and waste for food

decomposer

400

When a decomposer breaks down dead organisms and waste, what happens to the energy and matter from that organism? 

It returns back to the soil, and cycles back to producers. 

400
bacteria
What is a decomposer
400

Trees

What is biotic? 

500

What is a group of biotic (living) factors within an area? 

a community 

500
What is an animal that hunts another animal for food
predator
500
What are tiny organisms that are too small for you to see? 

a microbe

500
vulture
What is a consumer
500

Animals

What is biotic?

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