Vocabulary
a tool used to see very tiny things up close
What is a microscope?
Only eats meat
What is a carnivore?
This is the source of all energy on earth.
What is the sun?
All the living things that interact with each other and their environment in one place
What is an ecosystem?
Animal that hunts for its food.
What is a predator?
found on the Earth's surface; made of tiny rocks and material from dead plants and animals
What is soil?
Only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
These are organisms that make their own food and are after the sun in a food chain.
What are producers?
Anything that takes space and has weight; can be in different forms such as solid, liquid, or gas
What is matter?
Animal that is eaten by a predator
What is prey?
something that you can change in an experiment in order to test an idea
What is a variable?
Eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The organism that eats the producer is called this.
What is a primary consumer?
a group of things that affect each other and work together as a whole
Organism that cannot make its own food.
What is a consumer?
worm waste
What is a casting?
Humans are _____ because we eat plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
An organism that eats the primary consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
How living things are connected through what they eat and what they are eaten by
What is a food chain?
Organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis.
What is a Producer?
the tiny openings on plant leaves that take in air
What is a stomata?
Predators eat this
What is prey?
These are used to show how matter moves within a food chain or web.
What are arrows?
information that can be used to support or reject an idea
What is evidence?
Organism that obtains nutrients from dead organisms around it.
What is a decomposer?