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vocabulary
ecosystems
organisms
energy
Chain/Web
100
all the living and nonliving things in an environment and the ways they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Animals, plants, fungi, protists, and bacteria are the ____________ parts of an ecosystem.
What is living?
100
A ___________________ is all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.
What is population?
100
In the process of _______________, green plants change sunlight energy into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
100
A food chain always begins with energy from the ___________.
What is the sun?
200
Organisms that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
200
Air, water, soil, sunlight, climate, and landforms are the _________________ pars of an ecosystem.
What is nonliving?
200
The different populations that interact with each other in the same area form a __________________.
What is a community?
200
Since plants make their own food, they are called __________________.
What is a producer?
200
The flow of energy through a food chain happens in _________ direction.
What is one?
300
Organisms that eat only meat.
What is a carnivore?
300
The driest ecosystem.
What is a desert?
300
The area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem is call a _____________.
What is a habitat?
300
Organisms that eat other living things are called ____________________.
What is a consumer?
300
_______________ digest the waste and remains of dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
400
Organisms that break down dead plant and animal tissues.
What is a decomposer?
400
This ecosystem is covered with grasses and receive a medium amount of rain.
What is grassland?
400
A _____________ includes the type of food the organism eats, how it gets its food, and which other species use the organisms as food.
What is a niche?
400
Organisms that eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
A system of overlapping food chains is called a food _________.
What is a web?
500
The specific role an organism has in its habitat.
What is a niche?
500
A cold dry ecosystem where the ground beneath the surface is frozen all year long.
What is a tundra?
500
The hummingbird uses it long bill to get __________________ from flowers.
What is nectar?
500
______________________ feed on DEAD plants and animals.
What is a scavenger?
500
Almost _____________ of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
What is 3/4?