Food Chains/Webs
A dung beetle is an example of this link in the food chain.
What is a decomposer?
This biome has very cold temperatures.
What is the arctic tundra?
The process in which plants make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
This part of the plant acts like straws absorbing water and minerals from the soil.
What are the roots?
This refers to an animal that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
This link in the food chain makes its own food.
What is a producer?
This biome can support very little life because of the lack of water.
What is the desert?
The tiny openings on the bottom of a leaf where gas exchange occurs
What are stomata?
This part of the plant helps the plant stay upright and transports the nutrients.
What is the stem?
This is a network of intersecting food chains.
What is a food web?
This link in the food chain eats other animals.
What is a consumer?
Giraffes live in this type of biome.
What is a grassland?
This is released into the air as a result of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
This provides a covering for the seeds.
What is the fruit?
This means non-living.
What is abiotic?
This is what we call the animal at the very top of a food chain/web.
What is an apex predator?
This biome is home to pine trees.
What is the coniferous forest?
This is created during photosynthesis (it's the substance that the plants use for food)
What is glucose?
This is the reproductive part of the plant.
What is the flower?
These are the two names used to refer to an animal that eats only plants.
What are a herbivore and a primary consumer?
It is important to keep the food chain in balance so that this doesn't happen.
What is overpopulation or underpopulation of certain living things?
The trees in this biome lose their leaves during autumn.
What is the deciduous forest?
These are the 4 things needed for photosynthesis to occur.
What are sunlight, water, carbon dioxide, and chlorophyll?
This is the type of tree that was shown in the Mystery Science video. It was named General Sherman.
What is a Sequoia tree?
This is the structure of a leaf that contains chlorophyll.
What are the chloroplasts?