What is a model made up of food chains crossing each other called?
A food web
What is photosynthesis?
How plants make food.
A process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from carbon dioxide and water
Roots
The natural home of a plant or animal
Habitat
A living thing (almost always a plant) that takes energy from the sun and make its own food. They are found in the first level of a food web.
Producer
Why are plants different colors?
To attract insects or warn animals to stay away
Can be moved around by insects or the wind to other parts of the flower.
Pollen
What is the past simple of be
What and were
Living things that break down dead and decaying organisms.
Decomposers
Examples: Fungi and Bacteria
What's the green part in plants called?
Chlorophyll
A cross between petals and leaves. Responsible for protecting the flower before it opens.
Sepals
Hypothesis
What is the animal at the top of the food web called?
Apex Predator
Example: Sharks, Owls, and Lions
What is the process of taking sunlight and CO2 and turning it into sugar and oxygen called?
Photosynthesis
Male part of the flower, made up of the anther and the filament.
Stamen
Things that become before the word that change the meaning.
Prefixes
Where does all the energy come from?
The Sun
What is a monocot seed?
A seed containing a store of food, called an endosperm, and one seed leaf.
The part of the flower that eventually becomes the new seed. Part of the female side.
Ovule
Tiny living things that are everywhere around us. We can only see them with a very powerful microscope. They come in different shapes such as rods, spirals, and spheres. They are important in an ecosystem to break down dead and decaying matter.
Bacteria