Producer or Consumer
Predator or Prey / Parasite or Host
Short & Long-Term Environmental Changes
Vocabulary
Oceans
100
This is the main energy source for producers.
What is the sun?
100
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
100

During monsoon season, many Asian countries experience floods.

What is a short-term change?

100

A change an animal can undergo with enough time; helps the animal better survive its environment.

What is an adaptation?

100

The most troubling source of water pollution, due to its inability to decompose over time. 

What are plastics?

200
Organisms that make their own food.
What are producers?
200
An organism eaten by other animals.
What is the prey?
200

The Amazon rainforest is undergoing rapid deforestation over time.

What is a long-term change?

200

A species that is introduced to an ecosystem that does not belong there. Can disturb the balance in an ecosystem.

What is an invasive species?

200

An issue caused by over-farming of local fish supplies, resulting in smaller populations, and decreased biodiversity.

What is overfishing?

300
Organisms that cannot make their own food. They eat plants and other animals.
What are consumers?
300
A grey wolf hunts and kills a buffalo with his sharp, fierce teeth. Which animal is the prey?
What is the buffalo?
300

Our climate is steadily trending warmer with more intense storm seasons due to global warming.

What is a long-term change?

300
Clearing of trees in a massive amount.
What is deforestation?
300

A solution to plastic pollution; reusing material instead of throwing it away after one use.

What is recycling?

400
What are examples of producers?
What are plants, grass, trees, flowers, etc.?
400
An organism that lives in or on a host and benefits from the relationship.
What is a parasite?
400

A California forest rapidly burns forcing animals to flee and seek shelter elsewhere.

What is a short-term change?

400

Animals that can eat either plants or other animals. 

What are omnivores?

400

A solution to destroyed marine habitats. Usually the intentional sinking of old vessels/structures to provide a new home for fish. 

What is an artificial reef?

500
Are humans producers or consumers?
What are consumers?
500
What a parasite lives in or on.
What is the host?
500

Why are short-term environmental changes generally more devastating for wildlife in those areas?

What is the inability for animals to adapt in a short amount of time?

500

The recovery process of an ecosystem after undergoing some natural disaster.

What is succession?

500

Some ways humans depend on the oceans?

What are sources of food, travel/trade, scientific research, and weather regulation?

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