Vocabulary
Food Chains
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producer, consumer, or decomposer?
Relationships
100
The same species that live in the same place at the same time.
a Population
100
What is the beginning group of all food chains?
producers
100
What are consumers called that eat only plants?
What are herbivores?
100
mushrooms
What is a decomposer
100
What is the role of a rabbit in a forest ecosystem?
To eat grass, to be eaten by predators
200
Made up of all the populations that live in the same area
a community
200
What is an animal that is hunted for food
prey
200
What ecosystem would you find a dry climate, sand, and cacti year round?
What is a desert ecosystem
200
grass
What is a producer
200
How may an animal need a plant?
Food, water, shelter
300
What is an overlapping food chain that shows where energy goes in an ecosystem
a food web
300
What is a living thing that gets energy by eating other animals for food
consumers
300
What are consumers called that eat both plants and animals?
What are omnivores
300
wolves
What is a consumer
300
How may a mouse and a hawk be connected in an ecosystem?
Hawk needs the mouse as food
400
Over time changes in a system cancel each other out
stability
400
What is a living thing that breaks down dead things for food
decomposer
400
Groups of living things and the environment they live in is called....
An ecosystem
400
bacteria
What is a decomposer
400
How may a plant need an animal?
Spread seeds, fertilize the soil
500
What does Niche mean?
the animals role in the habitat
500
What is an animal that hunts another animal for food
predator
500
What is a consumer that eats only animals?
What is a carnivore?
500
vulture
What is a consumer
500
How may a living thing interact with a nonliving thing in an ecosystem?
Sunlight helps plants grow, water helps plants grow, water gives moisture to animals....
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