What is the Biosphere?
This is the part of Earth that includes all living things.
What is the biosphere?
This is the term for all the living and nonliving things that interact in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
Plants use this process to turn sunlight into food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the term for animals that only eat other animals.
What are carnivores?
Planting trees and cleaning up trash are ways to help this.
What is the environment?
These are the three things all living things need to survive.
What are air, water, and food?
This is the name for animals that eat plants.
What are herbivores?
This part of a plant takes in water from the soil.
What are roots?
This type of animal can live both in water and on land, like frogs.
What are amphibians?
This happens when people cut down too many trees in a forest.
What is deforestation?
What is a habitat?
This is the term for an environment where a living thing naturally lives and grows.
These organisms break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
These are plants that grow in water, like seaweed.
What are aquatic plants?
Animals that move to a new place during certain seasons are doing this.
What is migration?
Recycling and reusing items can help reduce this.
What is waste (or pollution)?
The biosphere interacts with this part of Earth, which includes rocks and soil.
What is the geosphere?
This is the term for an animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
This is the name of a forest where it rains a lot and is home to many plants and animals.
What is a rainforest?
This is the name for animals that sleep through the winter to survive cold weather.
What is hibernation?
Adding chemicals to the air and water causes this problem for the biosphere.
What is pollution?
This is the word for all the different kinds of plants and animals living in the biosphere.
What is biodiversity?
This is the name for a diagram that shows how energy moves through a food chain.
What is a food web?
These plants can survive in dry areas by storing water in their leaves.
What are cacti?
These animals help plants by spreading pollen.
What are pollinators (like bees or butterflies)?
Protecting this layer of the atmosphere helps living things avoid too much harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the ozone layer?