Vocabulary
Anything that takes up space and has weight; can be in different forms such as solid, liquid, or gas
What is Matter?
When a caterpillar eats a leaf, matter from the leaf is transferred to this organism
What is the Caterpillar?
This type of animal eats only plants, such as grass, leaves, or clover
What is a Herbivore?
The ultimate source of energy for almost all food chains and webs on Earth
What is the Sun?
A living thing that makes its own food
What is a Producer?
Plants get the matter they need to make their food from these three parts of their environment
What is Air, Water and Soil?
This type of animal eats other animals, such as a hawk eating a mouse
What is a Carnivore?
A complex diagram made of many overlapping and intersecting food chains.
What is a Food web?
A living thing that eats other living things
What is a Consumer?
Unlike energy, which enters and leaves an ecosystem, matter does this through the ecosystem
What is a Cycle?
This type of animal eats both plants and animals, such as a bear
What is an Omnivore?
What role do plants play in a food chain?
What is a Producer?
A living thing that can break down dead plants, dead animals, or animal waste
What is a Decomposer?
We breathe this gas and some plants take it in
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This animal is hunted by and eaten by another animal
In a diagram of a food web, these point from the organism being eaten to the organism doing the eating to show the flow of energy
What are arrows?
How living things are connected through what they eat and what they are eaten by
What is a Food chain?
The movement of carbon among the atmosphere, organisms, soil, and water is called the carbon this
What is a Carbon Cycle?
This animal hunts and eats other animals
What is a Predator?
If there were suddenly no decomposers, what do you think would happen to the ecosystem?
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