Vocab Review
Vocab Review 2
Vocab Review 3
Process Skills
Check Understanding
100
It feeds on the wastes of other living things
What is a decomposer?
100
The living things in a community ______ with each other and with nonliving things.
What is interact?
100
The interactions between the living and nonliving parts of the environment.
What is an ecosystem?
100
There are three layers in a rain-forest ecosystem. Name two of the three layers.
What is canopy, understory, and forest floor?
100
This might happen to a forest that is damaged by fire.
What is grow back?
200
A fish that is hunted and eaten by another consumer.
What is a prey?
200
Several linked food chains.
What is a food web?
200
A pond is one of these to a population of frogs living near a pond.
What is a habitat?
200
The two types of water ecosystems.
What are fresh and salt?
200
Producers get their energy from this.
What is the sun?
300
The path of food in an ecosystem from one living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
300
A shark is one because it hunts its food.
What is a predator?
300
Everything that surrounds a living thing.
What is an environment?
300
You observe this to find out what a goat eats.
What is a goat's environment?
300
A spider hunts and kills other animals for food. It is called this.
What is a predator?
400
This makes its own food.
What is a producer?
400
A model of how energy moves through a food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
All the living things of the same kind that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
400
You use this to infer what the goat eats.
What is a goat's teeth?
400
This is a characteristic of conifers that helps keep them from losing water.
What is needle-shaped leaves?
500
A living thing that eats other living things.
What is a consumer?
500
The population that live together in the same place make this up.
What is a community?
500
Rivers and most lakes are this type of ecosystem.
What is fresh water?
500
A bear lives in the woods near a river. A bear might do this to interact with its environment to get food.
Why might a bear eat both plants and animals? (Fish from water, berries from woods, small rodents...)
500
The two types of desert.
What is hot and cold?
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