Food Chains and Matter Flow
An animal that only eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
A type of gas that plants sometimes take in and that animals release when they breathe.
What is carbon dioxide?
A living thing that can break down dead plants, dead animals, or animal waste.
What is a decomposer?
The gases that surround a planet.
What is the atmosphere?
A quick increase in the amount of algae growing in an area.
What is an algae bloom?
Many different food chains found in one place.
What is a food web?
A test used to discover new information about a question.
What is an experiment?
A living thing that is a decomposer, such as a mold or mushroom.
What is fungus?
A set of events that repeats in the same order over and over.
What is a cycle?
Something that is bad or reduces the chances of success.
What is a disadvantage?
The movement of material through an ecosystem.
What is matter flow?
Anything that takes up space and has weight.
What is matter?
A pretend version of something that scientists use when the real thing is too big, small, or complicated to work with.
What is a model?
All the living things that interact with each other and their environment in one place.
A living thing's surroundings, including other living things and non-living parts like soil, water, and air.
What is the environment?
A group of things that affect each other and function as a whole.
What is a system?
A living thing that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
Any living thing.
What is an organism?
Tiny living things in water that produce their own food, like plants do.
What is algae?
A substance that living things need to grow and stay healthy.
What is nutrients?
A living thing that eats other living things.
What is a consumer?
The tiny openings on plant leaves that take in air.
What is stomata?
Very tiny organisms that you need a microscope to see; they are often decomposers and some can make you sick.
What is bacteria?
A type of gas that plants release and animals breathe in.
What is oxygen?
Water that moves across a surface, often carrying materials with it.
What is runoff?