Vocabulary 1
An organism that gets its energy by eating other living things
What is a consumer?
An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
What is prey?
What are producers?
What link does all food chains start with?
What is producers?
Define an organism.
What is any living thing?
A line of animals and plants, showing who eats whom and how energy flows through an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
A group of similar living things that can naturally breed with each other and produce fertile offspring
What is species?
Name the three essential things for photosynthesis to occur.
What is water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight?
What link does all food chains end with?
What are decomposers?
What do you call an animal that eats both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
The process in which plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
What is photosynthesis?
Living things, like fungi and bacteria, that break down dead plants and animals, turning them into nutrients that help new plants grow
What are decomposers?
What is created through the process of photosynthesis?
What is glucose (food for plants) & oxygen?
The arrows point to what eats it.
Name three ABIOTIC factors in an ecosystem.
What are temperature, soil, sunlight, air and water?
The non-living things in an environment that affect living things, like soil and air.
What is abiotic factors?
Anything living in an environment, like plants, animals, or even tiny bacteria
What are biotic factors?
Why is photosynthesis important?
It helps plants make their own food and gives us oxygen.
What are the animals called that are at the top of the food chain or web?
What are apex predators?
Where do all living things get their energy from?
What is the sun?
A big community where all the living things live together and interact with each other and their environment (like the air, water, and soil)
Areas of the planet with a similar climate and landscape, where similar animals and plants live
What is a biome?
Where in the plant does photosynthesis happen?
What are the leaves?
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain is a single model that shows how energy moves. A food web is multiple food chains that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem.
Explain the difference between a consumer, producer and decomposer.
Producers create their own energy using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. Consumers need to eat producers or other consumers to get their energy. Decomposers break down once living things and send nutrients back into the soil for producers.