Vocabulary
The process in which plants make their own food using water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis.
Small pieces of rocks, plants, and animal material carried by water, wind and ice.
What is sediment.
Living in water.
What is aquatic.
Anything that can harm living organisms when too much is released into an ecosystem.
What is a pollutant.
2 items/animals in your terrarium.
Living on land.
What is terrestrial.
A skeleton worn on the outside of the body.
What is an exoskeleton.
A young mosquito fish.
What is a fry.
A rain that has collected dangerous chemicals in the atmosphere.
What is acid rain.
2 things that are in your aquarium.
What are: gravel, water, elodea, duckweed, mosquito fish, pond snail or snail.
The sprouting of a seed.
What is germination.
The natural environment for an organism to live and grow.
What is habitat.
When organisms depend ON EACH OTHER to survive.
What is interdependence.
The scavenger in your terrarium that has an exoskeleton.
What is an isopod.
Causes of acid rain.
What are pollutants in the air by factories mostly.
Organisms that eat food made by producers.
What are consumers.
The process of using oxygen for energy.
What is respiration.
A very young insect.
What is a nymph.
An animal that captures other animals for food.
What is a predator.
2 ways that you can/your family can prevent acid rain.
Produce energy without fossil fuels such as through solar power. Buy a cleaner car (hybrid or electric.) Using less energy.
Organisms that eat dead plants and animals.
What are scavengers.
What are decomposers.
When ONE organism depend on another thing to survive.
What is dependent.
Organisms that make food for themselves and others.
What are producers.
Microorganisms that eat waste material, dead organisms, bacteria and fungi, and convert them into chemicals.
What are decomposers.
1 way that fertilizer can pollute. 1 way it affects plants and animals.
What is: Over fertilizing fields and then getting in the water ways through run off. Algae blooms, affecting the animals in and around water ways.