Vocabulary
Everything that surrounds a living thing.
What is an environment?
All of one kind of organism living in the same area.
What is population?
Kangaroos, rats, rattlesnakes and cactus populations live here.
Energy moves between living things in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
Positive effect: Make space for new growth, ashes add nutrients to the soil, pinecones open and seeds come out.
Negative effect: Habitats are destroyed, animals need to move or die.
What is a fire?
The space where a plant or animal lives.
What is a habitat?
A living thing that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
A saltwater place for clownfish, anemones, corals, fish and sharks.
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
Small pieces of rock are carried away by water and sometimes wind.
What is erosion?
The process a plant uses to make food.
A living thing that eats other living things.
What is a consumer?
Main plant is grass with zebras, bison and antelope.
What is a grassland ecosystem?
An animal that is hunted for food.
A large amount of water that covers normally dry land.
What is a flood?
Eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Eats animals only.
What is a carnivore?
Here you will find steller's jays, mountain goats, and pine trees.
What is a mountain ecosystem?
This is at the beginning of a food chain.
What is a producer?
Occurs when it does not rain for a long time.
What is a drought?
What is an ecosytem?
All of the populations that live and interact in an area.
What is a community?
Flowing fresh water with otters, fish, frogs, and ducks.
What is a River ecosystem?
Place this is the correct order.
rabbit
fox
grass
jaguar
Grass - Rabbit - Fox - Jaguar
What is a dam?