Living Things
Food Chains
Organisms
Scenarios
Scientific Tools
100

A place where an animal naturally lives.

What is habitat?

100

The part of the food chain that includes green plants that make their own food.

What is producer?

100
An animal that hunts other animals.
What is a predator?
100
A food chain consists of: plant-caterpillar-frog-snake. Name a predator.
What is a frog or snake?
100

Shows the transfer of energy from individual to individual.

What is a food chain?

200

Making more of your own kind.

What is reproduction?

200

The level of the food chain that includes animals that eat green plants.

What is primary consumer?

200
An animal that is hunted by other animals.
What is prey?
200
A food chain consists of: plant-caterpillar-frog-snake. Name the producer.
What is plants?
200

Interconnected food chains, showing the energy flow through an ecosystem and complex relationships between the organisms in an ecosystem.

What is a food web?

300

All the members of a certain kind (species) of living thing have died.

What is extinct?

300
The level of the food chain that includes animals that eat other animals.
What is secondary consumer?
300
Animals that eat ONLY meat.
What is carnivore?
300
A food chain consists of: plant-rabbit-wolf-worm. Name the decomposer.
What is a worm?
300

Populations of predator and prey animals are linked. The number of predators is less than prey numbers and increases after the number of prey increases (more food for predators so more predator babies survive). This decreases the prey numbers (they are eaten), which means predator numbers decrease (they starve).

What is a predator-prey cycle?

400
At risk of becoming extinct.
What is endangered?
400
Organisms that break down dead animals, plants, and waste.
What is decomposer?
400
Animal that eats only plants.
What is herbivore?
400

A food chain consists of: plant-rabbit-wolf-worm. What may happen if wolves become extinct?

What is the rabbits will be overpopulated?

400

The variety of living things. A high __________ ecosystem has high mauri and is resilient.

What is biodiversity?

500
An organism's job in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
500
The main source of energy for any ecosystem.
What is the sun?
500
An animal that eat plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
500

A food chain consists of: plant-rabbit-wolf-worm. What is the source of energy of the food chain?

What is the sun?

500

Describe the rule of 10%

What is 10% of energy of a trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level (most is lost as heat during life processes)?