Food Webs/Food Chains
These types of animals only eat plants.
What is an herbivore?
This renewable natural resource is the key to all life on Earth and inspires the nickname "the blue planet".
What is water?
This is the second layer of a flower that acts like a billboard to attract pollinators.
What are petals?
The heat from this NR is the force that powers the water cycle.
What is the sun/ what is sunlight?
This sprawling tree once covered 1/3 of California and produces acorns, an important food source for many animals.
These types of animals eat both plants and animals.
What's an omnivore?
This category of NR can remake themselves within 100 years or less.
What is a renewable natural resource?
This is the result of a flower that's been pollinated and has seeds to start the next generation of plants. Examples include: tomato, corn, blueberry, squash, and cherries.
What is a fruit?
Water falling from a cloud in the form of rain, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
These evergreen trees are some of the largest and tallest in the world and can take in water from fog through their leaves.
What is a redwood tree?
This group of organisms makes their own food using sunlight. Includes plants, moss, and algae. Forms the large base of the energy pyramid.
What is a producer?
This category of NR cannot make more of itself within 100 years. Once they are used up by humans, we can't use them anymore.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
This is the result of a mutually beneficial relation between fungi and algae. They come in many colors and textures and can be grouped into Crustose, Foliose, and Fruticose.
What are lichen?
Water heating up and changing from a liquid to a gas (water vapor).
What is evaporation?
This special fish is born in freshwater rivers, spends most of its life in the saltwater sea and then returns to complete its lifecycle in river it was born in.
What are salmon?
This group of organisms cannot make their own food and rely on eating other organisms for energy.
What's a consumer?
This NR group is made from decomposed swamp plants and animals that have broken down over 100,000 + years, is non-renewable, used to power machinery, make plastics and produce energy. When burned, they create air pollution.
What is a fossil fuel?
This term is used to describe an animal (or plant) that has a larger impact on it's environment than others, and helps hold the balance of an ecosystem together.
What is a keystone species?
Water drops grouping together, often forming clouds.
What is condensation?
This large, sleek marine mammal can sit upright and communicates in loud barks. Often found sunning themselves on rocks or piers.
What is a sea lion?