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Plants take water and carbon dioxide and use the sun's energy to make sugars and oxygen in a process called _______________.
What is photosynthesis?
Consumers that hunt other animals (prey) are called predators.
What is true?
Dirt that can have good bacteria and nutrients to help plants grow is called _______________.
What is soil?
An animal that eats plants or animals, takes in oxygen and gives plants carbon dioxide.
What is a consumer?
These tiny animals can make people sick, but they also help break down dead matter in the soil as decomposers.
What are bacteria?
_________________ can be fungi or bacteria or worms and insects that recycle dead matter.
What are decomposers?
Consumers that eat only meat become extinct.
What is false?
Consumers give off _________________, a byproduct that producers need.
What is carbon dioxide?
An animal that feeds on the bodies of a dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
These small animals with hard shells move slowly and help keep ecosystems clean.
What are snails?
An _____________ is a system that connects living things in their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Consumers that eat only plants are called herbivores.
What is true?
An ant eats seeds, then a bird eats the ant, and then a cat eats the bird. This is an example of a _______________.
What is a food chain?
This organism, a plant, creates food using carbon dioxide and water as raw materials using the energy of the sun.
What is a producer?
These large birds are scavengers and feed on dead animals.
What are vultures?
Producers give off ____________ as a byproduct and it is used by consumers.
What is oxygen?
The removal of a predator from a food web always has a positive effect on the food web.
What is false?
A network that shows different connections as animals eat each other and plants.
What is a food web?
Producers make these using water, carbon dioxide and the energy from sunlight?
What are sugars?
These apex predators are carnivores and hunt in packs in northern climates.
What are wolves?
Oxygen is a _______________ of photosynthesis.
What is a byproduct?
A place where an animal makes its home is its habitat.
What is true?
Decomposers _____________ dead matter into something new and useful to help producers.
What is recycle?
Decomposers eat dead matter and return these helpful materials to the soil.
What are nutrients?
These herbivores have large ears to hear predators approaching. They live in underground burrows and reproduce quickly.