Ecosystem
Vocabulary Examples
Fossil
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100

Which type of ecosystem is the ground beneath the surface frozen all year?

What is tundra?
100

Which of the following is a producer?

Grass or Dog

What is grass?
100
Which kind of fossil preserves the hard and soft parts of an animal?
What is amber?
100
An organism such as an earthworm that eats the remains of animals
What is a decomposer?
100
The transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten.
What is a food chain?
200

What is most likely to happen if most of a population of animals dies of disease?

The food web will stop

or

The food web will change

What is the food web will change?
200

An animal that eats plants.

Lion, horse, human

What is a horse?
200

Which is not a trace fossil?

a preserved nest or a preserved skull

What is a preserved skull?
200
Eats plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
200
System of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions.
What is a food web?
300

Which of these things are passed along in a food chain?

Air and Sunshine

or

Energy and Matter

What is energy and matter?
300

Animal that eats other animals?

lion, horse, human

What is a lion?
300
The remains or mark of an animal or plant that lived long ago.
What is a fossil?
300
Animals that eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
300
A living think that makes its own food from sunlight, air, and soil.
What is a producer?
400

What might finding a fish fossil in a desert tell paleontologists?

How animals once got enough to eat.

or

How Earth's environment has changed.

What is how Earth's environment has changed.
400

Eats plants and animals.

lion, horse, human

What is a human?
400
Animal that eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
400
A living thing that cannot make its own food.
What is a consumer?
500
All the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact.
What is ecosystem?
500

Which is an example of a decomposer?

apple tree, fungi, or hawk

What is fungi?
500
A living thing that makes its own food from sunlight, air, and soil.
What is a producer?
500

Which is an example of a consumer?

apple tree, fungi, hawk

What is a hawk.
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