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100

An organism that eats meat

What is a Carnivore

100

An organism that uses sunlight to create its food

What is a producer 

100

any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater

What is a herbivore?

100

any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals

What is an omnivore?

100

What is it called when the broken down food is moved through the blood stream in our body?

What is circulation?

100

The type of animal that hunts down another for food

What is a predator?

200

something that eats to survive

What is a consumer?

200

The most common type of producers

What are plants?

200

Plants use this process to make their food

What is photosynthesis?

200

In a food web the mushroom and  bacteria are types of what....

What are decomposers?

200

the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (linked together by their feeding relationships)

What is a food chain?

200

Air, water, and the Sun are all ......

Non-living things

300

Name one type of decomposer...

Fungi, Bacteria, mold, yeast

300

Any living thing breaks down the dead remains of organisms

What is a decomposer?

300

Where does the process of digestion begin?

In the mouth

300

Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem

What is a food web?

300

The organisms start the energy pyramid or food chain/web

What are producers

300

Zebra mussels and Kudzu vines are examples of these

What are invasive species?

400

The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment 

What is an ecosystem?

400

An order of a what organisms eat in an ecosystem

What are food chains?

400

living and nonliving things are parts that make this.

What are ecosystems?

400

The recovery or repair period of time after a disturbance in an ecosystem (takes a long time)

What is succession?

400

What do plants need to perform photosynthesis?  Sunlight, Water, and ______

Carbon Dioxide

400

What kind of ecosystem will you have if predators and prey are balanced?

A Healthy Ecosystem

500

A living thing (species) that is not native and harms the ecosystem

invasive species

500

An event that causes a major change in an ecosystem (volcanic eruption, forest fire are examples)

What is a disturbance?

500

Multiple paths of energy flow or food chains

Food web

500

The type of organism that is hunted for food 

What is a prey?

500

Plants give off this gas that we need to survive.

What is oxygen?

500

The process of how humans break down their food is called this

What is digestion?