Vocab Check
A plant or an animal is an example of a living _____.
Organism
The _____ is the main source of energy for almost all living things on Earth.
Sun
A food chain uses arrows to show the flow of _____.
energy
A long time with no rain is called a _____.
drought
Fossils are the only _____ we have to prove that ancient animals existed.
evidence
A _____ uses energy from the Sun to make its own food.
Producer
A zebra eats only grass, which makes it an _____.
herbivore
Every food chain must start with a _____.
producer / plant
Fireweeds are plants that grow very well after a __________ burns the forest.
forest fire
A whole insect can become a fossil if it gets stuck in hardened tree sap called _____.
amber
An animal that must eat other things to get energy is called a _____.
Consumer
A bald eagle eats only meat, which makes it a _____.
Carnivore
In a drawing of a food chain, the _____ point to where the energy is going.
arrows
The gopher tortoise stays safe from heat and flames by digging a deep _____.
burrow
Footprints can show if an animal had sharp claws or flat _____, like a horse.
hooves
All the living and nonliving things working together in one place make up an _____.
Ecosystem
A bear eats both berries and fish, which makes it an _____.
Omnivore
In the chain Grass ➔ Grasshopper ➔ Frog
the _____ gets its energy by eating the grasshopper.
Frog
If a storm blows down all the trees, animals that live in the branches must find a new _____.
home
If a dinosaur fossil has flat teeth, it means the dinosaur ate _____.
plants
A woodpecker's special job of hunting insects and spreading seeds is its _____.
Niche
In a prairie, grass is the producer and the prairie dog that eats it is a _____.
consumer
If all the producers in an ecosystem die, the consumers will not have enough _____.
food / energy
When an animal's environment changes too fast and it cannot survive, it might become _____.
extinct
Finding trilobites in Texas proves that the dry land used to be covered by an _____.
ocean / shallow sea