Vocabulary 1
The living and nonliving things that interact in an environment
Ecosystem
A living thing that eats other organisms
Consumer
The water in a wetland is an example of what?
habitat, community, population, or living part
habitat
Pigs eat both plants and animals. Which word best describes pigs?
Producer, omnivore, carnivore, or herbivore
omnivore
How can fossils help scientists learn what your state was like long ago?
Fossils show scientists what kinds of animals lived in my state long ago and what kinds of plants grew there.
The place where a living thing makes its home
Habitat
No longer lives on earth
extinct
Which of the following is a decomposer?
Grass, Eagle, Mouse, or Mushroom
Mushroom
An animal that only eats meat
Producer, omnivore, carnivore, or herbivore
Carnivore
Suppose a large part of the forest is cleared to build homes. How might this affects the living things in this food web?
Grass and trees will be cut down to make room for houses. animals may not be able to find food and will die or need to move to a new place.
All the living things of the same kind that live in the same place
Population
remains or mark of a living things from long ago
fossil
Which is a way that a drought changes an ecosystem?
Beaches wash away, plants die from the lack of water, plants have more room to grow, or animal habitats are flooded
plants die from the lack of water
An animal that only eats plants:
Producer, omnivore, carnivore, or herbivore
herbivore
Give me an example of a food chain
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All the population that lives in the same place
Community
a living thing that breaks down waste and dead plant and animal matter
decomposer
Grass to rabbit to fox... how do foxes get its energy
from the rabbits, from the sun from the other foxes, or from the grass
from the rabbits
Which is not an example of a seasonal adaptation?
Bats hibernate through the winter, trees shed their leaves in the fall, groundhogs dig burrows underground, or birds migrate to warmer places.
groundhogs dig burrows underground
Give me an example of a food chain
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A living things that makes or produces its own food
the transfer of energy from one living thing to another
food chain
Which is an example of a living thing causing change to an environment?
Beaver Dam, Forest Fire, Hurricane, or flood
Beaver Dam
Which of the following is an example of an interaction between a living part and a nonliving part in an ecosystem?
an insect using a plant as shelter, a bird using an insect for food, a worm using the soil as shelter, or a snake using a mouse for food.
a worm using the soil as shelter
How can you tell if an animal is a plant eater or plant eater?
The teeth