Animals
These animals typically have hollow bones
What are birds
Living things go through stages in their development
What is a life cycle
A living thing that makes it's own food
What is a producer
The smallest part of the roots
What are root hairs
Name a waste product of yeast
What is CO 2
Often found in wetlands, ponds, river - these creatures need water for part of their life cycle
What are amphibians
This moves through any system
What is energy
name three links in a food chain
Ex. - grass, rabbit, hawk
berry, bird, coyote
The "veins and arteries" of plants
What are zylem and phloem
Most of our energy comes from
What is the sun
Living things that wait for other creatures to die
What are scavengers
Inter-dependant living things interacting in a pattern with each other
What is an ecosystem
Name the three letters of decomposers
What is FBI
the woody part of a stem
What is the trunk
This happens to energy in a system
Energy is lost as it travels through the food chain
A creature that is at the top of the food chain
What is an apex predator
Person who studies living systems
What is an ecologist/biologist
The F in FBI stands for
What is fungus/fungi
The place in plants where production of food takes place
What are leaves
This is a form of stored energy
What is fat
Living things that do not produce their own food
What are comsumers
Living things that make their own food
What are producers
The B in FBI stands for
What is bacteria
The form in which plants create and store energy; usually
What is sugar
These are the three basic types of energy we consume
What are proteins, sugars, carbohydrates
Living things with scales who need external warmth
What are reptiles
What is a food web
The I in FBI stands for
What is invertebrate
Where you would find plants with broad wide leaves
What is a rainforest
The process of breaking down to basic elements
What is "decompose"
Living things with warm blood and fur
What are mammals
Ecosystems that receive very little rain, and the amount of evaporation is often much higher than the amount of rainfall.
What is a desert
Name an invertebrate found in the ocean
Ex.-Octopus, squid, sponges, worms
sea anemones
Name something plants use for defense
What are physical barriers like thorns and thick leaves, and chemical compounds
The indication of a healthy ecosystem
What is many species/lots of living things living in balance
Consumers that eat producers
What are herbivores
An ecosystem with lots of rain that's home to a wide variety of plants and animals
What is a rainforest
This happens to the amount of energy in a food pyramid near the top
There is less energy produced
The process of a plant making food
What is photosynthesis
This is given off during interactions in a food chain
What is:energy is lost as heat
Living things that eat herbivores
What are carnivores
A community of living organisms, including plants and animals, that inhabit and interact within a body of water.
Acceptable answers: ocean, lake, pond, river, wetlands
This is the amount of energy at the bottom of the food pyramid
What is "the most energy" or, producers
Plants that reproduce with flowers
What are angiosperms
Energy that cannot be made again, such as oil
What is non-renewable resources
Living things that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores
The largest catagory grouping of living things
What is a kingdom
Name four food chain links in a row, beginning with a producer
Ex. - What is grass, rabbit, coyote, eagle
algae, fish, octopus, eel
seeds, mouse, snake, hawk
plants that reproduce with cones
What are gymnopsperms
The activity that can happen to any organism at any point in the food chain
What is decomposers