Vocabulary
Plant Survival
Interaction of Living Things
Role of Decomposers
Random
100
What are the pores in the bottom of leaves called?
Stomata
100
What is the release of water vapor through the stomata of a plant called?
transpiration
100
What is a living organism that is hunted by another called?
Prey
100
Give an example of a decomposer
Fungi, bacteria, worms
100
an animal that hunts other animals for food is called...?
Predator
200
What do we call a living thing in an ecosystem?
Biotic factor
200
What materials do plants use to make food?
Carbon dioxide, water, light energy
200
What do we call animals that eat other animals?
Predators/Carnivore
200
What is the niche of a decomposer?
To break down dead plants and animals into useful substances.
200
What is an example of an abiotic factor?
Answers may vary
ex:
air, water, rocks, dirt, sunlight.
300
What is the ability to do work or change something?
Energy
300
What do plants produce through photosynthesis?
sugar (glucose), oxygen
300
What is an organism introduced to a new ecosystem that causes harm called?
Invasive species
300
What makes fungi different from a plant?
fungi cannot make their own food.
They do not go through photosynthesis.
300
Plants cannot grow too close together because their _________ need to spread out and absorb nutrients from the soil.
Roots
400
What the plant tissue is responsible for transporting sugars and nutrients to rest of plant?
Phloem
400
What do the roots do for a plant?
Absorbs nutrients
400
Look at this food chain, what animal is the tertiary consumer?
Snake
400
A single cell organism is called...
bacteria
400
Which of the following materials used by plants to make food can be found in the air?
Carbon Dioxide
500
__________ make their own food using energy from the Sun.
Producers
500
What is the plant tissue that moves water and minerals up to the plant from the roots.
xylem
500
Take a look at this food web. What does the frog receive its energy from?
Grasshopper, butterfly, dragonfly, fruit fly
500
How do decomposers help plants?
They recycle nutrients back into the soil that plants use to grow.
500
Draw a consumer
any animal