Vocabulary
Food Chains & Webs
Animal Types
Critical Thinking
100
Any living thing.
What is an organism?
100
An organism that makes its own food and is at the bottom of the food chain.
What is a producer?
100
Animals that hunt for food.
What is a predator?
100
A flea and a dog.
What is an example of a parasite and host?
200
All of the living and non-living things in an environment and all their interactions.
What is ecosystem?
200
Organisms that eat producers or other consumers.
What is a consumer?
200
The animals predators eat.
What is prey?
200
A dog breathes in oxygen and out carbon dioxide.
What is the carbon dioxide/oxygen cycle?
300
All of the living things in an ecosytem.
What is a community?
300
Several food chains that are connected.
What is a food web?
300
Animals that only eat meat.
What is a carnivore?
300
I kill my prey and leave some for the scavengers.
What is the job of a predator?
400
All of the members of a single type of organism in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
400
A series of organisms that depend on one another for food.
What is a food chain?
400
Animals that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
400
I eat all the left overs from predators.
What is the job of a scavenger?
500
The home of a living thing. (Where it gets food, water, and shelter.)
What is a habitat?
500
A diagram that shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem. (There are less animals when you go up the pyramid.)
What is an energy pyramid?
500
Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
500
I break down dead plants and animals (like mold and fungi).
What is a decomposer?
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