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Vocabulary
Types of Ecosystems
Food Chains and Food Webs
Interactions
Pollution and Water Quality
100
Animal that only eats animals.
What is a carnivore
100
Dry, barren land with little rainfall and cacti
What is a desert
100
Grass --> Grasshopper --> _______________ --> Snake --> Hawk
What is Frog
100
Happens when at least one member benefits from a partnership
What is symbiosis
100
Pure water has a pH of ____ making it neutral
What is 7
200
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore
200
Dense trees, moderate rainfall, moderate climate
What is a forest
200
When carnivores eat many herbivores they accumulate _______ in their tissues.
What are toxins
200
Animal that gets eaten by another animal
What is prey
200
Pollutants build up in a food chain and are known as ______
What are toxins
300
Different communities form ecosystems which makes up the ________________.
What is biosphere
300
Sunny, mostly hot, a lot of trees and a lot of rain.
What is a rain forest
300
A food chain links a producer, an herbivore and one or more ______________
What is consumer
300
Happens when two or more species depend on the same foo source or any limited resource
What is competition
300
Water quality is better when dissolved oxygen levels are ____________.
What is high
400
Something that causes harm to living things
What is a pollutant
400
Large open grasslands
What is a savanna
400
An animal that is part of more than one food chain is part of this.
What is a food web
400
Living and ________ parts of an ecosystem work together like a team
What is nonliving
400
Can make breathing difficult even for healthy people
What is sulfur dioxide
500
A living thing, like a plant, that can take the Sun's energy and store it as food.
What is a producer
500
Cold, icy, barren lands
What is a tundra
500
Food chains are connected to form
What is a food web
500
A shark is the _____________ and the seal is the prey.
What is predator
500
Is needed by most organisms living in the pond.
What is oxygen