Green plants get the energy they need to make food from this.
What is the sun?
100
A living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals.
What is consumer?
100
All of the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Energy is passed from one organism to another through a __________ .
EX. sun to grass to grasshopper to frog to snake.
What is a food chain?
100
Plants are different from most other living things. As you know, plants can use light energy to make sugar. Because plants can make sugar, they are called this.
What is producers?
200
The green substance found in plants that traps energy from the sun and gives plants their green color.
What is chlorophyll?
200
A consumer that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
200
A place where an animal or plant lives.
What is a habitat?
200
An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.
What is a predator?
200
A consumer that puts minerals and nutrients back into soil, air and water.
What is a decomposer?
300
A process by which plants change light energy from the sun and use it to make sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
300
A group of animals that only eats other animals.
example: a lion
What is a carnivore?
300
Plants and animals are examples of __________ parts of an ecosystem.
What is living?
300
Animals that predators hunt.
What is prey?
300
Three things that animals need from their environment in order to survive?
What is air, food, and water ?
400
The function of the roots is to get ________ and minerals directly from the soil.
What is water?
400
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
Rocks, soil, water and sunlight are examples of ____________ parts of an ecosystem.
What is nonliving?
400
An ecosystem has many food chains. All the food chains that are connected in an ecosystem are called a ________.
What is a food web?
400
When ocean waters become too warm, some whales change their habitat and travel to colder water. This movement is an example of ___________ .
What is migration?
500
A gas found in the air that is used by plants.
What is oxygen?
500
Animals that eat other dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
500
Habitats provide this for animals survival.
What is food, water and shelter?
500
The first source of energy comes from the __________.
What is the sun?
500
The energy that is stored in food originally comes from _________.