Vocab
What is an ecosystem?
all the living AND nonliving things in an area
What is an omnivore?
an animal that eats both plants and animals
What is a habitat?
An environment that meets the needs of an organism
What is prey?
Consumers that are eaten by predators
What are the four basic needs that every organism needs to survive?
Food, water, air, shelter
What is a producer?
Any living thing that makes its own food
What is a decomposer?
A living thing that feeds on waste and on the remains of dead plants and animals
What are basic needs?
Food, water, air, and shelter that an organism needs to survive
What is extinction?
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food web is just a bunch of food chains that overlap
What is a consumer?
An animal that eats plants or other animals
What is a habitat?
An environment that meets the needs of a living thing
What is a population?
a group of individuals of the SAME KIND of species living in the same ecosystem
What is overpopulation?
Excessive number of species plants or animals straining available resources and facilities
A consumer that _______ is a predator
eats prey
What is a herbivore?
What is a food chain?
Movement of food energy in a sequence (chain) of living things
What is a community?
All of the populations of DIFFERENT organisms living together in an environment
What are natural disasters?
An event that happens through nature that cannot be caused by humans
Which of these is a population?
A. insects living in a tree
B. chipmunks all over the world
C. squirrels living in the neighborhood
D. cats and dogs living in your house
an animal that eats only other animals
What is a food web?
Several food chains that overlap
What is a predator?
A consumer that eats prey
*Something that a human does that affects the ecosystem in a hurtful or meaningful way
GOOD: recycling
BAD: pollution
Which of these is a community?
A. all the fish, plants, and mammals in the ocean
B. ticks and spiders in the woods
C. plants in the rainforest
D. deer in a field