Vocabulary
An organism that makes its own food from sunlight.
What is a producer?
This gas is taken in by the leaves of a plant to help it make food.
What is carbon dioxide?
These are the remains or traces of living things from the past.
What are fossils?
To make food, plants need sunlight, water, and this specific gas.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the correct sequence of organisms for the flow of energy in a basic food chain.
What is Sun → Producer → Consumer?
An organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other organisms for energy.
What is a consumer?
This part of the plant is primarily responsible for collecting sunlight.
What are the leaves?
Finding fish fossils in a dry place like Texas is evidence that the area was once this type of environment.
What is wet?
What is underwater?
Plants release this specific gas into the air as a product of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
If you were building a food chain for a prairie, you would need these three roles: one that makes food, one that eats it, and one that recycles the waste.
What are a Producer, a Consumer, and a Decomposer?
This term describes an organism that is no longer existing on Earth.
What is extinct?
This represents the starting source of energy for all living organisms on Earth in a food web diagram.
What is the Sun?
Scientists found fossils of these types of plants in Antarctica, proving that the South Pole was once a warm, wet place.
What are ferns?
Unlike sunlight and water, this gas is taken in by plants to help them make food.
What is carbon dioxide?
In a prairie ecosystem, this organism acts as a decomposer by breaking down dead matter.
What is fungi (or mushrooms)?
An organism that eats only other animals for energy.
What is a carnivore?
These are used in food webs to show the direction energy is moving from one organism to another.
What are arrows?
This term is used to describe a type of organism, like a trilobite, that is no longer existing on Earth.
What is extinct?
This part of the plant is primarily responsible for collecting the sunlight needed for photosynthesis.
What are the leaves?
Most diagrams use arrows to show energy flow. If an arrow points from a berry to a mouse, it means this is happening.
What is the mouse is eating the berry?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients back to the soil.
What are decomposers?
Plants absorb water through this specific part of their structure.
What are roots?
Dinosaur fossils found in West Texas provide evidence that the environment there used to be this way.
What is wet and swampy?
During photosynthesis, plants combine water and carbon dioxide to form oxygen and these energy-rich substances.
What are sugars?
In a pond, if a small fish eats a dragonfly nymph and is then eaten by an alligator, the alligator is known by this "scary" title.
What is a predator?