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NonLiving Things
Living Things
Roles of Living Things
Vocabulary
100
All of the living and nonliving things that interact in an area
What is the ecosystem?
100
An ecosystem where the temperatures are extremely high and there is very little rainfall is this
What is a desert ecosystem?
100
Polar bears would be found in this ecosystem.
What is a polar ecosystem?
100
The energy that producers use to make food comes from this.
What is sunlight?
100
The process of making more of one's own kind is known as this.
What is reproduction?
200
The loose material made of rock, minerals, and organic matter that covers much of the Earth's surface.
What is soil?
200
An ecosystem where temperatures are extremely low and there is little sunshine is called what?
What is a polar ecosystem?
200
Animals whose populations are very small are protected and known as this.
What is endangered?
200
A bird cannot make its own food, therefore it is called a what?
What is a consumer?
200
An animal that gets energy by eating plants or by eating other animals that eat plants.
What is a consumer?
300
The remains of plants and animals, rich in nutrients, or materials that help living things grow.
What is organic matter?
300
Much of the Earth's surface is covered with this.
What is soil?
300
An area where it rains a lot.
What is a rainforest?
300
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
300
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
400
All of the living things in an ecosystem make up this.
What is the community?
400
Both animals and plants depend upon this for survival - plants use it to make food and animals need it for heat.
What is sunlight?
400
A grassy land area with few or no trees.
What is a prairie?
400
The scattering or carrying away of seeds from the plant that produced them.
What is seed dispersal?
400
All the members of one kind of plant or animal in a community is a what?
What is a population?
500
Everything that surrounds and affects a living thing is this.
What is the environment?
500
This provides living things protection from the sun.
What is shade?
500
An area of the Earth where the temperatures are moderate.
What is a temperate zone?
500
An animal that helps plants make seeds.
What is a pollinator?
500
Living things that depend on each other to meet their needs are known as this.
What is interdependent?