Basic vocabulary
Parts of our Ecosystem
Cycles A
Cycles B
Food in an Ecosystem
100
Everything that is around us
What is an environment?
100
A closed container where organisms can live
What is a terrarium?
100
solar energy
What do plants get from the sun?
100
The process by which all of the Earth's water is transferred between the ground and the atmosphere
What is the Water Cycle?
100
An organism that can make its own food...and an example
What is a producer? What is (accept any producer like duckweed)
200
Biotic
What is any living or once living thing?
200
Terrestrial
What is "of the land/Earth"?
200
Process by which plants use the sun's energy to produce their own food
What is Photosynthesis?
200
the over-saturation of the atmosphere - when the clouds become too full
What is precipitation?
200
An organism that uses another organism for food and energy...and an example
What is a consumer? What is (accept any consumer like mosquito fish)?
300
Abiotic
What is any non living thing?
300
Three biotic and two abiotic things found in our terrarium?
What is a cricket, alfalfa, rye grass, mustard grass, isopod, twigs? (biotic) What are gravel and soil?
300
Three things besides the sun a plant uses for photosynthesis
What are Carbon Dioxide, nutrients from the soil, and water?
300
The heating of collected water that allows it to rise into the atmosphere (liquid to vapor)
What is Evaporation?
300
An organism that breaks down dead organisms..and an example
What is a decomposer? What is (accept any decomposer like fungi)
400
A group if individual things or parts that work together
What is a system?
400
A closed container where aquatic organisms can live
What is an aquarium?
400
Two products of photosynthesis
What are glucose (sugar) and Oxygen?
400
The "pooling" of water from ground water and precipitations on the Earth's surface
What is Collection?
400
The process by which energy is transferred from one organism to another
What is a Food Chain?
500
A system formed by the interaction of a community or organisms with their environmen
What is an ecosystem?
500
The process by which seeds sprout and develop roots
What is germination?
500
Our planets producers
What are plants?
500
when water vapor rises and meets cooler air and begins to form clouds
What is condensation?
500
A system of interconnected food chains within and ecosystem
What is a Food Web?
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