Organism Vocab
This eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
This is a solid object, found in nature, and never been alive.
What is a mineral?
This is a rock made when wind and water move sediments into layers.
What are sedimentary rocks?
This is the path of food.
What is a food chain?
What would happen if all the producers went extinct?
This eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
This is an object made of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
This is a rock that is formed by melting and cooling.
What is an igneous rock?
These are overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
They break down dead organisms and return their nutrients to the soil for producers to use.
This makes its own food.
What is a producer?
(And Teacher Kevin because he like to make pancakes for breakfast)
This is the powder left behind when a mineral is rubbed against a tile.
What is a streak?
This is a rock that has been changed by heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
This shows how energy is moved in a food chain.
What is an energy pyramid.
What are the best ways to identify a mineral?
The best ways are by using hardness and streak because those never change for a mineral. Color can also be used to identify them. You can also look at the shape of the crystals.
This is an animal that hunts for food.
What is a predator?
These are the fossils made when an organism is buried, and the fossil when that hole is filled.
What are mold and cast fossils?
These are the remains of something that died a long time ago.
What is a fossil?
This is an animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Why are most fossils found in sedimentary rock.
Because the organisms can easily be buried in sediment that later turns to rock. Igneous rocks would also destroy the remains when they melted.
This is an organism that breaks down dead things.
What is a decomposer?
This is where almost all fossils are found.
What is the crust?
This is how one type of rock changes into another.
What is the rock cycle?
How much energy is passed up to each new level of an energy pyramid?
What is 10%?
What can fossils teach us?
They teach us about organisms that lived long ago. How big they were, what the ate, and what they looked like.