Habitats
Plants
Food Webs and Chains
Vocabulary
Rapid Changes of the Earth
100
A place that gets less than 10 inches of rain per year.
Desert
100
What carries water and nutrients to the leaves?
Stem
100
All food chains and food webs begin with what?
Sun
100
What type of animal eats other animals?
Carnivore
100
True or false - A forest fire is good for some organisms.
True
200
Large areas covered with trees and bushes
Forest
200
Name the three things plants need to make food.
carbon dioxide, water and sunlight
200
What is one negative impact that humans have on ecosystems?
pollution
200
What type of animals eat only plants?
Herbivore
200
Droughts can cause food prices to go _____.
Up
300
Wide areas covered with grasses
Grassland
300
Plants make their food in ____________.
Leaves
300
In one ecosystem many food chains may interconnect forming a ______________.
Food web
300
What kind of animal eats both plants and other animals?
Omnivore
300
Can ALL plants survive being flooded?
No
400
Large bodies of salt water that cover most of the earth.
Oceans
400
What is the process plants use to make food?
Photosynthesis
400
Sunlight > grass>mouse>snake is an example of what
Food chain
400
What type of organism produces its own food?
Producer
400
When an environment changes some organisms _________, while others die or have to move somewhere else.
thrive
500
Habitats located at the North and South Poles.
Polar
500
What is the green pigment found in plant's leaves?
Chlorophyll
500
What makes up all the living and non-living things in an area that depend on each other?
Ecosystem
500
What type of organism does not produce its own food?
Consumer
500
Name three changes to the environment caused by nature.
floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, tornadoes, droughts, hurricanes, and fires
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