Vocabulary
Plant Survival
Interaction of Living Things
Role of Decomposers
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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

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