Vocabulary
Organism
One single living thing.
Mammal
An animal with hair or fur that gives birth to live babies and nurses their babies with milk.
Living things that eat/hunt other living things.
Predators
What is the earth's Energy source?
The sun.
Species
A group of the same type of organism. (more than one dog...)
Fish
An animal who uses gills to breath underwater.
Living things that are hunted and eaten.
Prey
What is a food chain?
The connection of energy back to the sun.
Ecosystem
Living and non living things interacting with each other.
Bird
An animal that has feathers and lays eggs.
Why are Predators important?
they keep the ecosystem balanced.
What is a food Web?
Interconnected food chains.
Biodiversity
All of the different types living things.
Reptile
An animal with dry scaly skin, who lay eggs and cannot breath underwater.
The differences between living and non-living things. What do living things do (5 things)
Grow/change, reproduce, eat, excrete, breath
What is the first step in a food chain (after the sun)?
A producer (plants)
Habitat
The place where an animal or plant lives.
Invertebrate
An animal that has no backbone.
Living things need ... (4 things)
Water, air, food, shelter
What is the second step in a food chain (broken into two stages)
Consumers (herbivores and Carnivores)
Amphibian
An animal that has thin moist skin, starts it's life cycle in water but lives on land as an adult.
What is the last step in a food chain?
Decomposers.