Vocabulary
Types of Animals
Food Chains
Ecocolumn
Miscellaneous
100
This is a community of living and nonliving things that interact
What is an ecosystem?
100
This is an organism that feeds on dead or rotting organisms.
What is a scavenger?
100
This is an animal that eats only plants (examples include rabbits, horses and cows)
What is an herbivore?
100
These are the animals in your terrarium.
What are crickets and isopods?
100
This is the scientific name for something that is alive.
What is biotic?
200
This is anything that spreads harmful or unpleasant substances into the air, water or ground
What is pollution?
200
This is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
200
This is an animal that eats only meat (examples include lions, sharks and cheetahs)
What is a carnivore?
200
These are the animals in your aquarium.
What are mosquito fish and snails?
200
This is the scientific name for something that is not alive (examples include water, the sun, rocks, and air).
What is abiotic?
300
This is the process where plants use sunlight to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
300
This is an organism that cannot make its own food and feeds on other organisms.
What is a consumer?
300
This is an animal that eats both plants and other animals (examples include bears, humans and raccoons)
What is an omnivore?
300
These are the plants in your terrarium.
What are alfalfa, mustard and grass?
300
These are three ways that people can help the environment.
What is recycling, carpooling, and using less electricity? (There are many other responses to this question as well)
400
This is a closed glass or plastic container where organisms can grow and be observed.
What is a terrarium?
400
This is an organism that provides nutrients for the soil.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is what all food chains begin with.
What is the sun?
400
These are the plants in your aquarium.
What are elodea, duckweed and algae?
400
This is an interconnected system of food chains.
What is a food web?
500
This is a water-filled glass or plastic container where living things can grow and be observed.
What is an aquarium?
500
This is one example of an organism depending on a non-living thing to survive.
What is a fish depending on water to breathe? (There are many possible responses to this question)
500
How could you put the following words in order to form a food chain? zebra, sun, grass, lion
What is the sun, grass, zebra, and lion?
500
This is what would happen to the wildlife if people set up a city by a riverfront environment.
Many animals would lose their homes because trees would be cut down, the water would become polluted causing fish to die, and animals would lose their food source, which would disrupt the food web of the riverfront environment.
500
This is the term that describes organisms that are unable to exist or survive without each other.
What is interdependent?