This is an organism that feeds on dead or rotting organisms. *Examples are vultures, crabs, and hyenas.
What are scavengers?
100
This is an animal that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
100
This shows how nutrients and energy are passed from organism to organism.
What is a food chain?
100
This is anything that spreads harmful or unpleasant substances into the air, water, or ground.
What is pollution?
200
This is the scientific name for any nonliving thing.
What is abiotic?
200
This is a glass or plastic container where living things can grow and be observed.
What is a terrarium?
200
This is an animal that eats only vegetation.
What is an herbivore?
200
This is an interconnected system of food chains.
What is a food web?
200
These are three ways humans can help the environment.
What are recycling, turning off lights that are not being used to save electricity, and riding a bike or walking instead of using a car whenever possible.
(There are many other answers to this!)
300
This is a community of living and nonliving things that interact.
What is an ecosystem?
300
This is a water-filled glass or plastic container where living things can grow and be observed.
What is an aquarium?
300
This is an animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is a omnivore?
300
This is what all food chains begin with.
What is the sun?
300
Imagine people are setting up a city by a riverfront environment. These would be some problems that might happen when humans interfere with an ecosystem and start building things like houses, schools, and parks. (Think about the wildlife, the land, and the water!)
Trees would be cut down, animals would lose their homes and have to relocate, and the water would become polluted and unsafe for the plants and animals living in it.
400
This is an organism that can make its own food using the process of photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
400
This is an organism that provides nutrients for the soil.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is another name for an herbivore.
What is a primary consumer?
400
This means unable to exist or survive without each other.
What is interdependent?
400
These are ALL of the living things in your terrarium and aquarium (animals and plants).
What are crickets, isopods, snails, mosquito fish, grass, mustard plants, alfalfa plants, algae, elodea, and duckweed.
500
This is an organism that cannot make its own food, and eats other organisms to stay alive.
What is a consumer?
500
This is the process where plants use sunlight to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
500
This is another name for a carnivore.
What is a secondary consumer?
500
These are four abiotic things found in every ecosystem.