Food Chain Vocab
What is a living thing?
organism
What is an ecosystem?
All libing and non-living things that are in a given area
Food chains always start with what?
plants
What is a test used to discover new information about a question?
experiment
What is a type of fungus that usually has a stalk and cap?
Mushroom
What does it mean to pay close attention to something?
observe
What is a set of events that repeats in the same order over and over?
cycle
The more fertilizer nutrients in the water, the more algae bloom________.
grows
Scientist know what dinosaurs ate by looking their ________.
teeth
grasslands, forests, savannas
What is an animal that eats plants?
herbivore
What is a population?
A group of all organisms of a specific species that are living in an area at the same time.
What is anything that takes up space and has weight?
Matter
Plants use energy from __________ to turn air and water into plant matter.
sunlight
What is a living thing that can break down dead living things?
decomposer
How many earthworms you dug up soil?
Plants in a pond take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen during____________.
photosynthesis
Algae thrive best in _______ and sunlight?
warmth
75% of the animals and plants on Earth went _______ at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
extinct
What was the example of the ocean food chain we wrote in our notebook?
Sun>Algae>Krill>Whale>Killer Whale
What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals?
predator
What is a community?
all of the different populations in an area combined
model
What is a type of gas that plants sometimes take in and that animals release when they breath?
carbon dioxide
Microscope
castings
What is a type of gas that plants release and animals breathe in?
oxygen
What is a material that contains nutrients to help plants grow?
fertilizer
The one group of dinosaurs that survived extinction was _______.
birds
What are the 4 parts of a flower that we learned about?
stamen, pollen, pistil and petal
What is a living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals; they turn dead material into fertile soil?
decomposer
What parts of an ecosystem determine what living organisms are able to live there?
Nonliving
Matter moves from plants to animals through what?
food chains
Soil
What is the process of breaking down dead plants, dead animals, or animal waste?
decompose
Decomposers are like nature's ______.
Recyclers
What are organisms that live in water and that produce their own food, like plants do?
algae
What is a quick increase in the amount of algae growth in an area?
algae bloom
What is the movement of energy from one living thing to another living thing?
energy flow
What is the top of Food Chain Pyramid?
Teritary Comsumer
What is a diagram that shows how energy moves from one organusm to another?
food chain
What makes up an ecosystem?
population, communities, nonliving parts(air,water,sunlight & soil)
Foo chains show the movement of ___________ and matter, with arrows pointing from what gets eatedn to the animal that eats it.
energy
What materials are found right next to a plant?
soil, carbon dioxide (CO2), water, sunlight
If you zoom in with a microscope, you'd see fungi and ________ living right on the leaves, even before they're fully broken down.
bacteria
What is an experiment when everything is kept exactly the same in each set up, except one thing?
fair test
Decomposers turn dead plants and animals into ___________ that other organisms can use.
nutrients
Run off washes into what 4 things?
streams, rivers lakes, oceans
What is (solar power) energy from the sun; provides energy for plants and consumers that eat those plants?
solar energy
What is the Dinosaur food chain example we wrote down?
plant>Triceratops>T-Rex