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Food Chains and Webs
Grassland Biome
100
The fancy word for the business of farming.
What is agriculture?
100
The scientific name for plant life.
What is flora?
100
These provide other living things energy.
What are producers?
100
A large naturally occurring community of animal and plant life occupying a major habit.
What is a biome?
200
The hunters of the food chain.
What are predators?
200
The scientific name for animal life.
What is fauna?
200
These eat other living things for energy.
What are consumers?
200
Buffalo Grass and Milkweed.
What are plants found in the Grasslands?
300
The animals that are hunted or killed by another animal for food.
What are prey?
300
Little or no rain over a long period of time.
What is a drought?
300
These break down dead or decaying material to put nutrients back in the soil.
What are decomposers?
300
Rabbits and Owls.
What are animals found in the Grasslands?
400
This name means "beautiful land."
What is Iowa?
400
Something found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
400
Food chains linked together.
What is a food web?
400
A plain of grass that gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
What are prairies (grasslands of the Midwest)?
500
Businesses or factories that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.
What is an industry?
500
People who illegally hunt animals.
What are poachers?
500
Enough producers and consumers so that all living things can survive.
What is a balanced food web?
500
The type of grasslands in Africa.
What are Savanna Grasslands?