Vocabulary
Vocab Part 2
Consumers/Food Webs
Food Chain/ Food Web
Ecosystem
100

_____________________ is living and non living and the environment in which they interact 

Ecosystem

100

Resources can be __________ or ___________ things.

Living or non-living

100

Consumers that only eat PLANTS

Herbivores

100

Plants, fish, and water are all.....

Resources 
100

Living things grow, develop, interact and __________ with things around them.

Reproduce

200

_____________ is all the living things of ONE KIND that live in one area

Population

200

What makes it own FOOD?

A producer

200
Consumers that eat MEAT

Carnivores

200

T or F: when one part of the food web changes, it affects all of the web.

TRUE

200

____________ controls population sizes of an ecosystem 

Predators

300

__________ is a place where living things live.

Habitat

300
A _____________ gets its energy by eating other living things as food. 

Consumer

300

Consumers that eat BOTH plants and animals

Omnivores

300

Look at page 182:

The sun provides energy for the grass then the energy is passed from the grass to the ____________ and then the _______________

grasshopper to the garter snake

300

populations, _____________ and habitats make up an ecosystem 

Communities

400
The struggle between two or more living things trying to use the same resource is called _______________

Competition

400
A _______________ helps break down dead organisms and decaying matter.

Decomposer

400

T of F:

Animals get their needs met from only ONE source of food?

FALSE: several sources of food

400

The produer uses the sunlight to provide ________ for itself 

energy

400

What could be a reason an ecosystem changes?

Not enough rain, heavy rain, flooding

500

Movement of energy from one living thing to another living thing is called.....

A Food Chain

500

Several food chains linked together are called....

A Food web

500
T or F:

Can animals be apart of more than one food chain?

True

500
The SECOND link in the food chain is usually a __________________

Herbivore

500

What brought about the biggest change to an ecosystem? 

HINT: pg. 186

When Adam sinned and brought death into the world