Vocabulary 1
A place where water collects.
What is a watershed?
an organism that cannot make its own food. Consumers eat other organisms.
What is a consumer?
One thing plants need to grow.
What are carbon dioxide, water or sunlight?
The source of energy in a food chain
What is the sun?
Name 2 herbivores.
Examples: Rabbits, Groundhogs, Deer, Giraffe, Sheep, Horses
Microorganisms that act as decomposers
What is bacteria?
A system of interacting organisms that live on Earth
What is biosphere?
An animal that eats plants
What is an herbivore?
True or false: When one plant or animal population in the food web changes it affects the other plants and animals.
What is true?
Name two Carnivores:
Examples: Wolves, Lions, Hyenas, Octopus, Sharks
A description of the feeding relationship between organisms in an environment
What is a food chain?
An animal that preys on (hunts and eats) other animals
What is a predator?
An organism, such as plant or algae, that makes its own food
What is a producer?
Owls eat mice. Mice eat grasshoppers. Grasshoppers eat grass. The mice population dies off.
What is the owl population dies OR the grasshopper population grows.
True or False: There are no producers in bodies of water because they can't get sunlight
What is False? The sun's light can reach producers in bodies of water
Decaying organic material
An animal that eats plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
An organism that breaks down plant and animal material into simple chemicals
What is a decomposer?
The arrow in a food chains shows
What is where the energy is flowing?
Yeast needs _______ and ________ to wake up.
What are nutrients (sugar) and warm water?
a community of organisms interacting with each other and with the nonliving environment
The feeding relationships among all the organisms in an ecosystem. Arrows show the flow of matter and energy from one organism to another
What is a food web?
Plants using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to make sugar and oxygen?
What is photosynthesis?
If the rabbit population increases, what happens to the carrots?
The carrot population decreases or disappears.
A volcano explodes. This affects the atmosphere by________.
Many correct answers.