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Vocabulary
Food Chains
Biomes
Levels in an Ecosystem
Putting It All Together
100
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem?
100
Carnivores eat this type of food
What is meat?
100
Polar bears and caribou live in this kind of biome
What is the Tundra?
100
The role of an organism in its habitat
What is niche?
100
Animals help to conserve their energy in cold climates through this process
What is hibernation?
200
This is a kind animal that eats only plants
What is a herbivore?
200
When an animal hunts and eats other animals, they are considered this
What is a predator?
200
This biome is known to have very little rain and extreme temperatures
What is the desert?
200
The number of similar kinds of living organisms coexisting together in the same place is referred to as this
What is a population?
200
This process begins when an organism dies
What is decomposition?
300
When a species is close to becoming extinct
What is endangered?
300
Humans are considered to be this in a food chain
What is a consumer?
300
This kind of biome is abundant with plants and trees
What is the forest?
300
We refer to animals' homes using this term
What is a habitat?
300
This term refers to the ongoing weather pattern in an environment
What is climate?
400
This kind of animal eats both plants and animals
What is a omnivore?
400
Most food chains end with these organisms
What are animals?
400
Animals such as gophers, prairie dogs, and bison live in this kind of biome
What are the grasslands?
400
The collective term for all the populations living in an ecosystem
What is a community?
400
This term refers to the process of forests being torn down
What is deforestation?
500
These organisms make their own food
What is a producer?
500
Bacteria and fungi play this role in the food chain
What are decomposers?
500
Dolphins, sharks, and seals are found together in this biome
What is the ocean?
500
The area surrounding living and nonliving organisms
What is the environment?
500
Timon and Pumba from the Lion King could be found in this biome
What are the grasslands (savannah)?