Ecosytems
In order for animals to obtain energy from plants, plants need to make their own food. Plants go through this process in order to make their own food.
Photosynthesis
An animal that eats only other animals
Carnivore
Many different food chains are found in one place
food web
very tiny organisms that you need a microscope to see; they are often decomposers
bacteria
a substance that living things need to grow and stay healthy
nutrients
This sugar is created as a product of photosynthesis. Plants use this as a form of energy to help grow,
glucose
How living things are connected through what they eat and what they are eaten by
food chain
a type of gas that plants take in and that animals release when they breathe
carbon dioxide
decomposed material that can be used as fertilizer
compost
organisms that live in the water and that produce their own food, like plants do
algae
All energy in a food chain or food web comes from the same place. Where does all the energy that drives an ecosystem come from?
The Sun
anything that takes up space and has weight; can be in different forms such as solid, liquid, or gas
matter
a part of a plant that can grow into a baby plant
seed
a living thing that is a decomposer, such as mold or a mushroom
fungus or fungi
a living thing that eats other living things
consumer
These organisms are the base of a food web. They can create their own food through a process that takes energy from the sun.
Producers
all the living things that interact with each other and their environment in one place
ecosystem
information that can be used to support or reject an idea
evidence
any living thing
organism
The gases that surround a planet
atmosphere
This is the relationship between two or more living things. In this relationship, all of the living things benefit from one another.
Interdependence
An animal that is hunted by and eaten by another animal
prey
a test used to discover new information about a question
Experiment
a tool used to see very tiny things up close
microscope
tiny floating living things in water that are smaller than algae and produce their own food, as plants do
phytoplankton