Definitions
This is the natural home for a plant or animal.
What is a habitat?
This is the ecosystem Saskatchewan largely consists of.
What is a grassland?
A plant that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
This is what we breathe in order to live. In return, we make carbon dioxide.
What is oxygen?
This is the cycle for how living things get food. When the animal at the top of this cycle dies, it still continues.
What is a food chain?
This is what you call a group of plants and animals that live together in peace.
What is a community?
This is the driest habitat where you will find camels and cactus roaming around.
What is a desert?
An animal that eats other living things in order to survive.
What is a consumer?
This is one of the most useful things in our live. We drink it, bathe in it and use it to cook.
What is water?
A food chain needs at least one of each of these in it.
What is a producer and a consumer?
This is the number of a certain plant or animal found in a community
What is a population?
This is the coldest habitat where humans don't commonly live. This is home to polar bears, penguins and no plants.
What is the polar habitat or the arctic?
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
This is what give us energy to survive. After we eat this, we have energy to live.
What is food?
These are the bottom of the food chain and help restart the food chain.
What are decomposers?
This is the natural order for how plants and animals eat. It makes a perfect "chain".
What is a food chain?
This is a habitat that we have plenty of in Canada and in Saskatchewan. This habitat houses bears, coyotes and other known predators.
What is the forest?
A consumer that only eats dead plants and dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
This is the light that helps us live. If we lived in the darkness forever, we would lack vital vitamins and minerals we get from this.
What is sunlight or the sun?
These consumers only eat producers. (Not herbivores)
What are primary consumers?
The two main groups that follow the food chain. Plants fall under one, while animals fall under the other.
What are producers and consumers?
This habitat houses the most species on Earth. It is not found in Canada and will require you to go somewhere tropical to find it. You can find anything from pigs to tigers here.
What is the rainforest?
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals. This helps create good soil.
What is a decomposer?
This provides us with everything above. It gives us access to food, water, shelter, sunlight and the oxygen we breathe.
What is a habitat?
This is the definition that explains that plants and animals rely on each other for survival.
What is interdependence?