Vocabulary
The path energy takes as one living thing eats another.
What is a food chain?
All food chains must start with this source of energy.
What is the Sun?
In a pond food chain, this producer is usually at the bottom.
What is algae?
A relationship where both organisms help each other, like a bee and a flower
What is mutualism?
True or False: Butterflies are producers.
False
A plant that makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
This type of consumer eats plants only.
What is a herbivore?
In a forest food chain, this animal might eat berries.
What is a bird?
A relationship where one animal hunts and eats another, like a frog catching a bug.
What is predation?
This nonliving factor helps plants make their own food.
What is the sun?
An organism that eats other living things to get energy
What is a consumer?
This type of consumer eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
In an ocean food chain, this producer provides energy for small fish.
What is seaweed (or plankton)?
A relationship where one living thing benefits by harming another, like a tick on a dog.
What is parasitism?
These two decomposers are famous for "cleaning up" dead material.
What are mushrooms and earthworms?
An organism that breaks down dead material for energy.
What is a decomposer?
This type of consumer, such as a bear or a fox, eats both plants and meat.
This animal is often at the top of most food chains.
What is a lion?
This bird gets food by eating ticks off the skin of a zebra or rhino.
What is an oxpecker?
These are the living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
A community of interacting living and nonliving things in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Many connected food chains that show how living things depend on each other.
What is a food web?
The specific role an organism has in its ecosystem.
What is a niche?
When one living thing benefits by harming another living thing
What is parasitism?
These are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem, like rocks and water.
What are abiotic factors?