Ecosystems
Vocabulary
Food Chain/Web
Adaptations
Living Things
100

The ecosystem that has a dry climate.

What is the desert?

100

A living things home.

What is habitat?

100

What all food chains start with.

What is the sun?

100

The adaptation of blending in.

What is camouflage?

100

The relationship between the turtle and the bald eagle.

What is predator?

200

The forest that is hot and damp.

What is rain forest?

200

Organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material.

What is decomposer?

200

What a food web is made of.

What is food chain?

200

Sleeping during the day and hunting during the night.

What is nocturnal?

200

Animals that only eat meat.

What are carnivores?

300

The ecosystem that covers one third of the planet.

What is ocean?

300

The pattern of weather in a place over a long time.

What is climate?

300
An animal that eats other living things.

What is consumer?

300

The adaptation of imitating another living thing.

What is mimicry?

300

Living thing that produces its own source of energy or provides energy to another living thing.

What is producer?

400

The forest that has different weather for different seasons.

What is temperate forest.

400

Animals that eat plants and animals.

What is omnivores?

400

An organism that is hunted by another organism.

What is prey?

400

Going into a deep sleep.

What is hibernate?

400

The process of plants making their own food.

What is photosynthesis?

500

The ecosystem where water covers the soil for most of the year.

What is wetland?

500

Living and nonliving things that interact within an environment.

What is echosystem?

500

Animals that eat only plants.

What is herbivores?

500

Moving from one place to another.

What is migrate?

500

What these living things have in common: worms, mold, mushrooms, and some insects.

What are decomposers?

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