Vocabulary
Nonliving Things
Living Things
Roles of Living Things
Relationships of an Ecosystem
100
Loose material that covers much of the earth's surface.
What is soil?
100
The process plants use to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
100
An animal that relays on plants only for food.
What is a herbivore?
100
Living things found in an ecosystem are this.
What is interdependent?
100
What does a consumer get energy by eating.
What is sunlight?
200
A grassy land area with few or no trees.
What is a prairie?
200
Plants need this to make food, but animals do not.
What is light?
200
All the living things in a ecosystem make up this.
What is a community?
200
They help pollinate flowers and disperse seeds
What is a bee?
200
This is an an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
300
An area where it rains a lot.
What is rainforest?
300
A nonliving resource that trees provide to living organisms.
What is shade?
300
An animal that uses trees to build lodges for shelter.
What is a beaver?
300
A type of fish that has a coating that protects it from a sea anemone sting.
What is a clown fish?
300
What gets energy by eating plants or by eating other animals that eat plants?
What is omnivore?
400
All members of one kind of plant or animal in a community.
What is population?
400
The remains of plants and animals is rich in nutrients or materials that help living things grow.
What is organic matter?
400
Everything that surrounds and effects a living thing.
What is an environment?
400
A bird that cleans a crocodiles teeth.
What is an Egyptian plover?
400
An animal that helps plants make seeds is called this.
What is a pollinator?
500
The scattering or carrying away seeds from the plant that produced them.
What is seed dispersal?
500
Made up of all living and nonliving things that interact in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
500
All the members of of one kind of plant or animal.
What is a population?
500
This makes its home in a swollen acacia tree.
What are stinging ants?
500
The process of making more of one's own kind is called.
What is reproduction?