Vocabulary
These Are Examples
Comprehension 1
PPT
Comprehension 2
100

A series of living things linked as food 

Food chain

100

Sunflowers and trees are... 

Producers

100

Decomposers eat this. 

Dead/dying matter and waste. 

100

This shows how chains are connected. 

Food web
100

Owls eat land animals. Blue herons mostly eat fish. This is how they are similar. 

Carnivores 

200

A model that shows energy at different levels of the ecosystems 

Energy pyramid

200

You are a(n)...

Omnivore

200

These would be at the bottom of the energy pyramid. 

Producers

200

This is not a predator.

Plankton 

200

Plants compete with each other for this. 

Sunlight

300

These can't make their own food 

Consumers 

300

Porcupines, rabbits and deer are...

Herbivores

300

We classify consumers based on this. 

What they eat.

300

What ecosystem is this? 

Ocean 

300

What lesson will not be on the MT? 

Biomes

400

The struggle between living things for food

Competition 

400
Cats and sharks are...

Carnivores 

400

Deer and cow are in competition because they are both... 

Land herbivores

400

The most competition is over this animal. 

Anchovy

400

Carnivores and omnivores would be found here on the energy pyramid. 

The top

500

The function of someone or something in a situation 

Role

500

Worms and mushrooms are...

Decomposers 
500

Producers and consumers are similar in the way that they both provide energy for these. 

Decomposers

500

This animal is the apex predator. 

Killer Whale 

500

Decomposers are left out of the food chain because they participate in these food chain steps. 

Every step