Food Webs & Chains
It is the center of a food web.
What is the Sun?
This is the process plants go through to create their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
I need to be in any ecosystem to support the needs of all the animals.
What are plants?
A mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock, and humus.
What is soil?
An interconnected set of food chains.
What is a food web?
This is how animals get the energy they need to grow.
What is the food they eat?
What are enough resources?
An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals.
What is a consumer?
I love to hunt and consume other animals.
What is predator?
I get my energy from the plants that I eat, and I provide energy for others.
What is a consumer? What is a herbavor?
All living and nonliving things and all their interactions in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
A self, contained, living thing.
I only eat plants.
What is a herbivore?
I break down matter and "recycle" the matter.
What is a decomposer?
Water flows down a stream, a deer drinks the water. Or a bear uses a cave to hybernate in the winter.
What are interactions between living and nonliving things?
This is needed to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
When the well-being of two or more things is linked together.
What is interdependence?
A type of organism that can break down just about any type of organic matter and is too small to see without tools.
What is bacteria?
What is a species?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?