Plants and Sunlight
Food Chains
More Food Chains
Food Webs
Microorganisms
100
The process of plants making their own food
What is photosynthesis?
100
Shows how energy passes from one organism to another as food
What is a food chain?
100
Animals the eat other animals
What are carnivores?
100
Shows how a group of food chains are linked together
What is a food web?
100
Living things too small to be seen with just our eyes
What are microorganisms?
200
Energy from the sun
What is solar energy?
200
Green plants in the food chain that make or produce their own food
What are producers?
200
Animals that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
200
The struggle of several organisms for the same resource
What is competition?
200
Smallest microorganisms. Can be both helpful and hurtful to human life.
What are bacteria?
300
Everything that surrounds a living thing
What is an environment?
300
Animals are called this because they cannot make their own food
What are consumers?
300
A pond food chain may start with this plantlike producer
What is algae
300
All the members of a single type of organism in an environment
What is the population?
300
A microorganism that is found in ponds and lakes. Much bigger than bacteria.
What are protists?
400
The measurement of the amount of living things in an environment
What is biomass?
400
Tiny living things that beak down organisms and return nutrients to the soil
What are decomposers?
400
Plantlike organism that breaks down rotting wood and other plant parts
What is fungi?
400
A model that shows how much energy flows through a food web
What is an energy pyramid?
400
A protist that acts like an animal in most ways. Moves to get food by flowing its body in one direction.
What is an amoeba?
500
Tiny holes on the bottom of leaves where plants take in carbon dioxide
What are stomata?
500
Animals that eat mainly plants
What are herbivores?
500
An animal that hunts another animal for food
What is a predator?
500
The path that energy takes from one organism to another in the form of food
What is food chain?
500
A tool used to view objects magnifying their size
What is a microscope?
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