Animals
Vocabulary
ChainLinks
Plants
Energy/Ineractions
100

These animals typically have hollow bones

What are birds

100

Living things go through stages in their development

What is a life cycle

100

A living thing that makes it's own food

What is a producer

100

The smallest part of the roots

What are root hairs

100

Name a waste product of yeast

What is CO 2

200

Often found in wetlands, ponds, river - these creatures need water for part of their life cycle 

What are amphibians

200

This moves through any system

What is energy

200

name three links in a food chain

Ex. - grass, rabbit, hawk

      berry, bird, coyote

200

The "veins and arteries" of plants

What are zylem and phloem

200

Most of our energy comes from

What is the sun

300

Living things that wait for other creatures to die

What are scavengers

300

Inter-dependant living things interacting in a pattern with each other

What is an ecosystem

300

Name the three letters of decomposers

What is FBI

300

the woody part of a stem

What is the trunk

300

This happens to energy in a system

Energy is lost as it travels through the food chain

400

A creature that is at the top of the food chain

What is an apex predator

400

Person who studies living systems

What is an ecologist/biologist

400

The F in FBI stands for 

What is fungus/fungi

400

The place in plants where production of food takes place

What are leaves

400

This is a form of stored energy 

What is fat

500

Living things that do not produce their own food

What are comsumers

500

Living things that make their own food

What are producers

500

The B in FBI stands for

What is bacteria

500

The form in which plants create and store energy; usually

What is sugar

500

These are the three basic types of energy we consume

What are proteins, sugars, carbohydrates

600

Living things with scales who need external warmth

What are reptiles

600
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.


What is a food web

600

The I in FBI stands for 

What is invertebrate

600

Where you would find plants with broad wide leaves 

What is a rainforest

600

The process of breaking down to basic elements

What is "decompose"

700

Living things with warm blood and fur

What are mammals

700

Ecosystems that receive very little rain, and the amount of evaporation is often much higher than the amount of rainfall.

What is a desert

700

Name an invertebrate found in the ocean

Ex.-Octopus, squid, sponges, worms

 sea anemones

700

Name something plants use for defense

  What are physical barriers like thorns and thick leaves, and chemical compounds 

700

The indication of a healthy ecosystem

What is many species/lots of living things living in balance

800

Consumers that eat producers

What are herbivores

800

An ecosystem with  lots of rain that's home to a wide variety of plants and animals

What is a rainforest

800

This happens to the amount of energy in a food pyramid near the top

There is less energy produced

800

The process of a plant making food

What is photosynthesis

800

This is given off during interactions in a food chain

What is:energy is lost as heat

900

Living things that eat herbivores

What are carnivores

900

A community of living organisms, including plants and animals, that inhabit and interact within a body of water.

Acceptable answers: ocean, lake, pond, river, wetlands

900

This is the amount of energy at the bottom of the food pyramid

What is "the most energy" or, producers

900

Plants that reproduce with flowers

What are angiosperms

900

Energy that cannot be made again, such as oil

What is non-renewable resources

1000

Living things that eat both plants and animals

What are omnivores

1000

The largest catagory grouping of living things

What is a kingdom

1000

Name four food chain links in a row, beginning with a producer

Ex. - What is grass, rabbit, coyote, eagle

                       algae, fish, octopus, eel

                   seeds, mouse, snake, hawk


1000

plants that reproduce with cones

What are gymnopsperms

1000

The activity that can happen to any organism at any point in the food chain

What is decomposers