What’s that Word?
Vocab 101
Food Chains and Webs
Grassy Lands
100
The fancy word for the business of farming.
What is agriculture?
100
Little or no rain over a long period of time.
What is drought?
100
These make their own food/energy and provide energy for other animals
What are producers?
100
A large naturally occurring community of animal and plant life occupying a major habit.
What is a biome?
200
The hunters of the food chain.
What are predators?
200
Someone who illegally hunts endangered animals.
What is a poacher?
200
These eat other living things for energy.
What are consumers?
200
2 plants found the grasslands
What are grasses, clover, wheat, dandelions,
300
The animals that are hunted or killed by another animal for food.
What are prey?
300
Something found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
300
These break down dead or decaying material to put nutrients back in the soil.
What are decomposers?
300
2 animals found the grasslands
What are owls, rabbits, snakes, mice, hawks, frogs, grasshoppers, caterpillars
400
This name means "beautiful land."
What is Iowa?
400
The scientific name for plant life.
Flora
400
Food chains linked together.
What is a food web?
400
The name for grasslands found in the midwest
What are prairies?
500
Businesses or factories that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.
What is an industry?
500
The scientific name for animal life.
Fauna
500
What happens if one part of the food web/chain is taken out or becomes extinct
What is the food web/chain falls apart and other animals/plants in the food web/chain will die or become over-populated.
500
The name of grasslands found in Africa.
What are Savanna Grasslands?
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