Vocabulary 1
When plants, animals, and other living things use oxygen
What is respiration.
When plants use the the sun's energy, water, and carbon monoxide to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is what we call the place where all the living and nonliving things interact
What is an ecosystem?
Caterpillars are this level of a consumer.
What is first level?
This is your teacher's first name
What is Sean?
The black spot that appears on either side of a female mosquito fish.
What is a gravid spot?
Immature young Mosquito fish
What are fry?
A group of living things found in an ecosystem is called this
What is a community?
Cats are this level of a consumer
What is third level?
The teacher's faculty
What is Science?
Makes the food that animals need to live.
What is a producer?
A tiny floating plant
What is duckweed?
Herbivore meaning
What is a plant eater?
Birds are this level of a consumer
What is second level?
Two
How many kids does your teacher have?
A group of living things found in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
When Mosquito fish fight off other fish
What is territorial?
Carnivore meaning
What is meat eater?
Isopods are terrestrial. Terrestrial means this
What is land-living?
This is your teacher's favourite NRL team
What is the Manly Warringah Seaeagles?
All members of same type of organism in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
Mosquito fish are famous for feeding off this.
What is mosquito larvae?
Omnivore meaning
What is eats both plants and animals?
This means water-living
What is aquatic?
This is your teacher's favorite holiday
What is Christmas?
Gets energy by eating food not producing it.
What is a consumer?
A stiff suit of armor on an isopod
What is an exoskeleton?
The prefix "omni" means
What is all?
Mosquito fish are most famous for this
What is eating mosquito larvae?
This is how many siblings Mr Harrington has
What is one sister?
Give birth to fry born alive and fully formed at birth.
What is a live-bearer?
Describes how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
By studying food webs scientists can ______________ and _____________.
What is explain how ecosystems function and predict the effects of changes to an ecosystem?
Young mosquito fish are known as this
What are fry?
This is a senior subject your teacher can teach
What is Physics?
An expert on insects.
What is an entomologist?
Shows how food chains combine in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Algae and water plants have a healthy exchange of this
What is gas in the water?
An insects body is divided into this many parts
What is three?
This is one of your teacher's favorite hobbies.
What is cycling?
When an isopod or "roly-poly" sheds its exoskeleton.
What is molt?
A baby plant
What is an embryo?
Healthy Elodea is this color
What is bright yellow green?
A very young cricket is called a
What is a nymph or house cricket?
The other grades your teacher has taught
What is Year 7, 8, 10, 11 & 12?
They break down decaying remains.
What is a decomposer?
What is a very young cricket with no wings at all
What is a nymph?
Almost all food chains begin with this
What is the sun?
Aquatic organisms such as duckweed help provide oxygen for animals in the water by doing this
What is taking in CO2 and giving off O2?
This is your teacher's height
What is 174 cm?