Links in a Food Chain
Parts of an Ecosystem
Ecosystem Vocabulary
The "Web" of Life
Ecosystem Grab Bag
100
The main source of energy for life on Earth.
What is sunlight?
100
Water, soil, and air.
What are nonliving parts of an ecosystem?
100
Consumers that eat only meat.
What are carnivores?
100
A system of overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
100
Energy flows this way in a food chain.
What is one direction?
200
Organisms that make their own food with the sun's energy.
What are producers?
200
Animals, plants, and bacteria.
What are living parts of an ecosystem?
200
Consumers that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
200
In a food web energy flows this way.
What is many different directions?
200
Matter that travels through a food chain. (Name at least 2)
What are nutrients, minerals, oxygen, and carbon dioxide?
300
Organisms that eat other living things to get energy.
What are consumers?
300
Members of the same species living in one area.
What is a population?
300
Consumers that eat both plants and meat.
What are omnivores?
300
Hunting, disease, and pollution.
What are things that affect groups of organisms in an ecosystem?
300
An animal that hunts and eats another animal.
What is a predator?
400
Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals for energy.
What are scavengers?
400
Different populations in the same area of an ecosystem that interact with one another.
What is a community?
400
An organism's "address" in an ecosystem or where it lives.
What is a habitat?
400
Minerals, carbon dioxide, and oxygen.
What is matter?
400
An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
What is prey?
500
Organisms that digest waste and help decay.
What are decomposers?
500
An organism's special role or job in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
500
What is passed from organism to organism in a food web.
What is energy and matter?
500
How matter is returned to ecosystems.
What is decay?
500
All living and nonliving things working together and interacting in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
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