Vocabulary
All About Plants!
Eco-
Systems
Eat or be eaten
100

All the conditions surrounding an organism are called

eniviornment

100

The process in which sugar is made from sunlight, water, and Carbon Dioxide

Photosynthesis

100

An animal that is hunted

Prey

100

An animal that hunts for food

Predator

100

An organism that cannot make their own food and relies on other organisms for energy

Consumer

200

Visible part of the leaf that has pores 

Epidermis Tissue

200

Thin, long tubes that carry water and food throughout the plant

Veins

200

Any substance that can damage the enviornment

Pollution

200

An attempt to preserve or protect the environment

Conservation

200

An organism, usually a plant, that makes its own energy

Producer

300

Where Chlorophyll is stored in the plant

Choloplasts

300

A green substance that traps energy from the sun and is stored in the the plant

Chlorophyll

300

Natural Disasters usually cause this type of change

Fast Change

300

When organisms fight for resources in their environment it's called... 

competition

300

Organisms that get energy from dead plants or animals

Decomposers

400

An animal or plant living in an area where it is not originally from

Nonnative Species

400

The process where sugar is turned into food or energy for the plant

Cellular Respiration

400

Give an example of symbiosis

birds and zebras , elephants ,  rhinos 

eel and cleaner shrimp

fish and whales or sharks


400

Climate is the main reason for this type of change

Slow Change

400
One set of ways energy is transferred amongst organisms  

Food Chain

500

Cell inside a plant that powers it to break down sugar

Mitochandria

500

The TWO tissues you cannot see in a plant that allow air to pass through and make food for the plant

Palisade Tissue and Spongy Tissue

500

Small advantages that organisms gain over a period of time in order to help them survive are called

Adaptations

500

Name the THREE kinds of consumers and what each of them consumes

Herbivore , Carnivore , Omnivore

500

A diagram that shows many ways energy can be transferred amongst organisms

Food Web

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