Vocabulary
Ecosystems
Consumer/Producer
Food Web/Chain
Vocab 2
100
An organism that eats only animals.
What is a carnivore?
100
The driest ecosystem.
What is a desert?
100
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
100
A chain that shows how energy is passed from one living thing to the next.
What is a food chain?
100
All the living and nonliving things in an environment and the way they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
200
An organism that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
200
Covered in tall grasses.
What is a grassland?
200
An organism that does not make its own food. All animals are these.
What is a consumer?
200
The relationship producers and consumers have and how they are connected to each other.
What is a food web?
200
All the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.
What is a population?
300
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
Covered in trees, and receives moderate amounts of rain. Animals like squirrels, bears and wildflowers are found here.
What is a forest?
300
Break down dead plant and animal tissues.
What is a decomposer?
300
The role of plants in a food web.
What is a producer?
300
Formed by the different populations that interact with each other in the same area.
What is a community?
400
Organisms that break down dead plants and animal tissues.
What is a decomposer?
400
This ecosystem is always wet. Colorful animals and plants live here.
What is the tropical rain forest?
400
The role of zooplankton in a food web.
What is a consumer?
400
The main source of energy for life on earth.
What is sunlight?
400
The area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem.
What is a habitat?
500
The specific role an organism has in its habitat.
What is a niche?
500
The ground here is always frozen. Some grasses can grow, but trees do not.
What is the tundra?
500
A mushroom is one of these.
What is a decomposer?
500
Things animals need that have to pass through a food chain.
What are nutrients and minerals?
500
The specific role an organism has in its habitat.
What is a niche?
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