Vocabulary
This makes its own food from the sun
What is a producer
This animal eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Animals living in a group help each other by doing this
What is protecting each other?
Living things compete for these resources
What is food, space, and water
A beaver changes an environment by doing this
What is building dams and flooding dry land?
This needs to eat food to live
What is a consumer?
An animal that is hunted by others
What is prey?
An example of one kind helping another kind is this
A tree helps a flower get light.
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A whale allows barnacles to attach to them
Purple loosestrife weeds compete for this
What is space to grow?
Hurricanes change habitats in this way
What is washing away beaches, knocking down trees, and causing floods?
This animal eats only plants
What is an herbivor?
This animal eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The cleaner fish help big fish by doing this
What is eating pests off the big fish?
Humans and animals compete for space for this reason
What is humans moved into spaces where animals once lived?
Floods change environments in this way
What is killing plants, washing away bird's nests, and moving rich soil to new places?
This animal eats only meat
What is a carnivore?
This animal hunts other animals for food
What is a predator
The big fish helps the cleaner fish in this way
What is providing a meal of pests from its skin being cleaned by the cleaner fish?
When there is an overgrowth of algae in a pond, fish and frogs must compete for this
What is oxygen?
Droughts change environments in this way
What is plants die and animals have to move to find water?
A living thing that breaks down waste
What is a decomposer?
The action of breaking down living waste
What is decay?
living things interact for these reasons
What is helping each other and receiving help from others?
This happens when a food chain is broken
What is many different species have to find different sources of energy?
Fire can improve growing conditions in this way
What is reducing the competition for space to grow and ash makes the soil better?