Recycling
Kelp Forest Food Web
The Earth System
General Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100

Cells need this to do work

What is energy?

100

This word means ocean

What is marine?

100

Earth has this many subsystems

What is four?

100

This is a collection of interacting parts

What is a system?

100

These organisms depend on both producers and consumers for food

What are omnivores?

200

An organism that breaks down plant and animal material

What is a decomposer?

200

An organism that makes its own food

What is a producer?

200

The layer of gases surrounding Earth

What is the atmosphere?

200

Referring to water

What is aquatic?

200

Microscopic animals in aquatic environments

What are zooplankton?

300

Microorganisms that act as decomposers

What are bacteria?

300

Feeding relationship between all organisms in an ecosystem

What is a food web?

300

The interacting water on Earth

What is the hydrosphere?

300

A system can be made up of many of these

What are subsystems?

300

When organisms in an ecosystem need the same resource

What is compete?

400

All food webs should contain this

What is bacteria?

400

An organism that cannot make its own food

What is a consumer?

400

Earth's core, mantle, and crust

What is the geosphere?

400

To act upon one another

What is interact?

400

A community of organisms interacting with each other and with the nonliving environment.

What is an ecosystem?

500

Only this remains after decomposition is complete

What are minerals?

500

Microscopic plantlike organisms in an aquatic environment

What are phytoplankton?

500

A system of interacting living organisms on Earth

What is the biosphere?

500

Referring to land

What is terrestrial?

500

A description of the feeding relationships between organisms in an environment

What is a food chain?

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