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 examples of.....

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

____________ control 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

Give an example that makes sense:

The sun provides energy for the grass. Then the energy is passed from the grass to a ____________. Then from the ___________to a______________.

Example could be from a grasshopper to a 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:

Animals can be a part of more than one food chain.

True

500

The SECOND link in the food chain is usually this type of consumer

Herbivore

500

What event brought about the biggest change to an ecosystem? 

When Adam sinned and brought death into the world