The Food Web
Roles of Producers
Producers and Consumers
Interactions of Biotic and Abiotic Elements
Words Matter
100
An animal that hunts.
What is a predator?
100
This abiotic element provides heat and light.
What is the sun?
100
These make their own food supply to survive.
What is a producer?
100
Living things in an ecosystem
What is biotic elements?
100
Most scientific words come from this language.
What is Latin?
200
An animal that is hunted.
What is prey?
200
The process in which a plant produces oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
200
These are the three types of consumers.
What is herbivore, omnivore and carnivore?
200
This is what pond, rocks and soil are.
What is abiotic elements?
200
The Latin word for "meat". (Used in "carnivore)
What is "carnis"?
300
All food that we eat and make connects to this one element in the food web.
What is a plant?
300
A type of producer.
What is a plant?
300
Consumers that break down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces.
What is decomposers?
300
A non-living thing in an ecosystem
What is an abiotic element?
300
This is what the prefix "-a" means in words such as "abiotic".
What is not?
400
Matter derived from living things like dead insects and animal waste.
What is organic matter?
400
These are the three roles or a producer in an ecosystem.
What is produce oxygen, supply food and provide shelter?
400
This is what detritivores, scavengers and decomposers are.
What is special consumers?
400
A colourless, odourless gas in the earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
400
The Latin word for "plant". (Used in "herbivore)
What is "herba"?
500
These two types of special consumers connect the the biotic elements of ecosystems to the abiotic elements.
What is detractors and decomposers?
500
Groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area at the same time.
What is population?
500
Microscopic living organisms that are decomposers.
What is bacteria?
500
Oxygen, water, food, energy and suitable habitat (place to live)
What is the basic needs of a biotic element?
500
The root of the words "omnivores", "herbivores" and "carnivores" come from this Latin word that means "consume".
What is the word "vorare"?
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