Food Chain & Matter
Vocab
Vocab
What is a living thing?
organism
What is an ecosystem?
All living 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 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 sunlight to turn ________ and ________ into plant matter.
air & water
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
What are the tiny openings on the underside of plant leaves that take in air containing carbon dioxide (CO2) that it needs for food?
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 a diagram that shows how energy moves from one organism to another?
food chain
What makes up an ecosystem?
population, communities, nonliving parts(air,water,sunlight & soil)
Food chains show the movement of ___________ and matter, with arrows pointing from what gets eaten to the animal that eats it.
energy
What materials are found right next to a plant?
soil, carbon dioxide (CO2), water, sunlight