5th grade Science 1
______ is a large area covered mostly with trees and undergrowth.
Forest
Primary source of energy for all food chains is the ____.
sun
What are the five basic senses that humans have?
Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
_________ factors are the nonliving parts of an environment.
Abiotic
__________ is an organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, producing nutrient-rich waste that is returned to the soil and reused by producers.
Decomposer
_________ a single living thing that can respond to stimuli, grow, and reproduce.
Organism
Plants use _____, ______, and _____ to make food.
water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide.
A food web is made up of ________________.
Multiple food chains
__________factors are the living parts of an environment.
Biotic
_____ refers to all of the living and nonliving things in that environment.
Matter
long term weather patterns of an area is known as _______
Climate
Define producers
plants that make their own food
Name a decomposer
fungi
_______ Living organisms that consume, or eat, other living things.
Consumer
______________ is a model scientists used to explain the process by which energy and matter pass from one living thing to another.
Food Chain
A scientific model that combines food, and chains, highlighting their interactions between them.
Food Web
means to decomposer or decay.
Rot
What does a herbivore eat?
plants
__________ A living organism that makes its own food.
Producer
To __________ is to make or become greater, or to become more numerous by producing young.
Increase
_____ is when gas cools and turns into water droplets.
Condensation.
what does an omnivore eat?
plants and meat
what does a carnivore eat?
meat
__________ area where living organisms live.
Environment
__________ a community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
Ecosystem
________ is a large open area of the country covered with grass.
Grassland
___________ is a dense forest rich in life. It is typically found in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall.
Rainforest
___________ has to do with land-based surfaces.
Terrestrial
___________ lowers the amount or ability of biotic or abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
Decrease
________ has to do with water-based surfaces.
Aquatic
To __________ is to lower the amount or the ability of biotic or abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
Decrease
__________ is naturally occurring salty water.
Saltwater
__________ is naturally occurring water that is not salty, but may contain some salt.
Freshwater
_________ water occurs when the freshwater from a river or stream meets the salty seawater of an ocean.
Brackish
A. Stream is a body of freshwater that flows on Earth's surface. A river is a large body of freshwater that is surrounded by land.
B. A stream is a body of freshwater that flows on Earth's surface. A river normally describes large streams.
B. River and Stream
1. A lake is a larger body of freshwater that is surrounded by land. A pond is a small body of freshwater that is surrounded by land.
2. A lake is a large body of freshwater that is surrounded by land. A pond is a stream body of freshwater that is surrounded by land.
A. Lake and Pond
An _________ is where a river meets the sea and forms brackish water.
_________ Are wetlands that form between the ocean and the land.
1. Estuary
2. Salt Marsh
A ________ is a group of different species that live in the same area and interact with each other.
A ________ is a group of the same species living in the same area.
1. Community
2. Population
___________ is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls to Earth.
Precipitation
A ________ is an environment where an organism lives, and it provides everything the organism needs to survive.
Habitat