What is an ecosystem?
Living and nonliving things living and working together.
What is a food chain?
It shows how each animal gets food
It is the transfer of energy from one organism to the next organism
What is a predator?
An animal that hunts for food
What is an organism?
a living thing
What is ecology?
the study of the relationship between living and nonliving things
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food
What is prey?
An animal that is eaten or hunted
What is this called?
Food chain
What is a habitat?
The place where a species lives
What is a consumer?
An organism that eats other organisms (plants and animals)
What is the definition of a carnivore?
meat eater
What is this?
food web
What is a niche?
An organism's role in an ecosystem, or how it makes a living.
What is a decomposer?
An organism that eats away at dead organisms
What is the definition of an herbivore?
plant eater
What is a food web?
Many food chains working together
What is the definition of environment?
It is your surroundings
Draw this food chain -
leaf, snake, worm, bird
leaf-->worm-->bird-->snake
What is the definition of an omnivore?
Meat and plant eater
What is photosynthesis?
When plants use sunlight to make sugar and oxygen
What is the definition of a biome?
A very large ecosystem
Make a food chain with these plants and animals:
snake
insect
leaf
mouse
leaf-->insect-->mouse-->snake
What does endangered mean?
in danger of disappearing forever
What is the definition of extinct?
gone from the Earth forever