Vocabulary
Food Chains and Food Webs
Understanding Ecosystems
Producer, Consumer, Decomposer
Symbiotic Relationships
100

This word is used to describe an animal that hunts and eats other animals.

What is a predator?

100

Food chains begin with this type of organism.

What are plants?

100

A group of organisms that can reproduce with one another.

What is a species?

100
An organism that uses energy from sunlight to make its own food.

What is a producer?

100
The symbiotic relationship between a bee and a flower. 

What is mutualism?

200

The area where an organism lives.

What is a habitat?

200

This organism is the prey of the snake in food chain "C".

What is the robin?

200

A group of the same species in a habitat.

What is a population?

200

An organism that consumes other organisms to obtain energy.

What is a consumer?

200
A symbiotic relationship that is beneficial to both organisms.

What is mutualism?

300

This word is used to describe an animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals.

What is prey?

300

These are the three different levels of consumers in a food chain.

What are primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers?

300

The community of organisms and the physical conditions of a habitat.

What is the environment?

300

An organism that eats dead or decaying matter. 

What is a decomposer?

300

A symbiotic relationship that benefits one organism and harms the other.

What is parasitism?

400

All the populations in a habitat are called a _____.

What is a community?

400

According to the food web. This animal will likely die out if all the robins and frogs die.

What is a snake?

400

The interactions of a community and the physical conditions of a habitat.

What is an ecosystem?

400

Identify the following as producers, consumers, or decomposers. Snake, human, tree, earthworm

Snake: consumer

Human: consumer

Tree: producer

Earthworm: decomposer

400

A symbiotic relationship that benefits on organism and the other organism is neither harmed nor helped.

What is commensalism?

500

The study of relationships among organisms and their environment. 

What is ecology?

500

________ is shown by arrows within a food chain/ food web model.

What is the transfer of energy?

500

These are the four physical conditions of a habitat.

What are temperature, water, sunlight, and soil?

500

These two types of organisms are the most common decomposers in an ecosystem. 

What are bacteria and fungi?

500

This symbiotic relationship describes a dog and a tick. 

What is parasitism?