Vocabulary
How Species Spread
Examples
Effects on Ecosystems
100

The word describes a species that spreads and causes harm.

What is an invasive species?

100

Animals can accidentally travel on ships?

What is transportation?

100

This plant grows very fast and covers everything in the South.

What is a Kudzo plant?

100

A system that has living and nonliving things.

What is an ecosystem?

200

This word means the place where an organism naturally lives.

What is a native habitat?

200

People bring plants from other places because they look nice.

What is decoration?

200

Kudzu can block sunlight, causing the other plants to do this?

What is die?

200

When invasive species take too many resources, native species do this?

What is die or decrease?

300

This is when organisms are moved from one place to another by humans.

What is transportation?

300

This happens when people bring animals to keep at home.

What are pets?

300

European starlings compete with native birds for these.

What are nesting spots/holes?

300

Kudzo absorbs this from the soil, leaving less for other plants.

What is water?

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