Vocabulary
What is the living and nonliving things that interact in an environment?
an ecosystem
What is the beginning group of all food chains?
producers
What are consumers called that eat only plants?
What are herbivores?
mushrooms
What is a decomposer?
camouflage
physical
a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place?
a population
the sun's role in a food chain
What is the main energy source?
What type of resource CAN be replaced?
a renewable resource
mimicry or imitating another animal
physical
an overlapping food chain
a food web
a living thing that gets energy by eating other animals for food
consumers
What are consumers called that eat both plants and animals?
What are omnivores
banyan tree
producer
migrating south for the winter
behavioral
What is the positive human effect on the ecosystem that includes reducing waste by reusing items?
recycling
waste products that damage the ecosystem
What is pollution?
Give at least two examples of nonrenewable resources.
coal, oil, natural gas, ores
bacteria
What is a decomposer
hibernating during the winter months
behavioral
a trait that helps a plant or an animal survive
an adaptation
Climate is dependent on what two things?
average: temperature and precipitation
a cactus growing thick, shallow roots to absorb rain water
physical