Vocabulary
Food Chains

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producer, consumer, or decomposer?
Food Web
100
What is the living and nonliving things that interact in an environment
an ecosystem
100
What is the beginning group of all food chains?
producers
100
What are consumers called that eat only plants?
What are herbivores?
100
mushrooms
What is a decomposer
100

If there was a drought for many years, what would likely happen to the grass and mice?

The grass would wilt and die and there would be less mice.

200
What is a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place
a population
200
What is an animal that is hunted for food
prey
200
What ecosystem would you find a dry climate, sand, and cacti year round?
What is a desert ecosystem
200
grass
What is a producer
200

What ecosystem would you find a dry climate, sand, and cacti year round?

Desert

300
What is an overlapping food chain
a food web
300
What is a living thing that gets energy by eating other animals for food
consumers
300
What are consumers called that eat both plants and animals?
What are omnivores
300
wolves
What is a consumer
300

What is a consumer that eats only animals?  

Carnivore

400
What is a behavior that an animal knows without being taught
an instinct
400
What is a living thing that breaks down dead things for food
decomposer
400
What is it called when there are no more of a certain type of organism on earth?
What is extinction?
400
bacteria
What is a decomposer
400

Which list shows all herbivores? A. zebra, elephant, fox B. giraffe, hawk, rabbit C. rabbit, giraffe, zebra D. wolf, fox, lion

C. rabbit, giraffe, zebra

500
What is a trait that helps a plant or an animal survive
an adaptation
500
What is an animal that hunts another animal for food
predator
500
What is a consumer that eats only animals?
What is a carnivore?
500
vulture
What is a consumer
500

If hawks eat mice, the mice eat grasshoppers and the grasshoppers eat grass, what is most likely to happen if there is a shortage of grasshoppers? A. The number of mice and hawks will increase B. The amount of grass will decrease C. The amount of mice and hawks will decrease D. The amount of mice will increase, but the amount of hawks will decrease

C. The amount of mice and hawks will decrease