Vocabulary
What is the process by which plants make their own food?
Photosynthesis
In photosynthesis, plants make their own _________.
A rock is biotic or abiotic?
Abiotic?
What do food chains show?
The flow energy from one living thing to another.
What is the type of animal that only eats plants?
Herbivore
What is the term for the energy passing from one living thing to another?
What 3 things do plants need for photosynthesis?
Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight, Water
A tree is biotic or abiotic?
Biotic
What is the first living thing in most food chains?
Producers or plants.
What is the type of animal that only eats meat?
Carnivore.
What are the terms for a land and aquatic based biome?
Terrestrial and aquatic
What part of the plant does photosynthesis take place in?
The leaves
Name an example of a biotic thing
Multiple answers. Any living thing.
Name a decomposer.
Earthworm, ant, snail, etc.
What is the type of animal that eats meat and plants?
Omnivore
A living thing is called a _________.
Organism
Plants breathe in _______ and exhale ________.
A nonliving this is biotic or abiotic?
abiotic
What is the function of decomposers?
To break down dead plants and animals AND return nutrients to the soil.
Name two examples of omnivores.
Multiple answers.
Name the five basic functions of life.
Get energy from food, grow and develop, reproduce, produce waste, respond to environment.
What is the part of the CELL where photosynthesis takes place?
Chloroplast
Are dead leaves biotic or abiotic?
BIOTIC
Give an example of a simple food chain
Multiple Answers.
Sun --> Producer --> Consumer --> Decomposer
What type of animals are humans?
Mostly omnivores but can be herbivores.