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Food Chain & Matter
Vocab
Ecosystems
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100

What is a living thing?

organism

100

What is an ecosystem?

All living and non-living things that are in a given area

100

Food chains always start with what?

plants

100

What is a test used to discover new information about a question?

experiment

200

What is an animal that eats plants?

herbivore

200

What is a population?

A group of all organisms of a specific species that are living in an area at the same time. 

200

What is anything that takes up space and has weight?

Matter

200

Plants use energy from sunlight to turn ________ and ________ into plant matter. 

air & water

300

What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals?

predator

300

What is a community?

all of the different populations in an area combined

300
What is a pretend version of something that scientists use when the real thing is too big, small. or complicated to work with?

model

300

What is a type of gas that plants sometimes take in and that animals release when they breath?

carbon dioxide

400

What are the tiny openings on the underside of plant leaves that take in air containing carbon dioxide (CO2) that it needs for food?

stomata
400

What parts of an ecosystem determine what living organisms are able to live there? 

Nonliving

400

Matter moves from plants to animals through what?

food chains

400
Most of the matter in a tree like General Sherman comes from air and water- not _________. 

Soil

500

What is a diagram that shows how energy moves from one organism to another?

 food chain

500

What makes up an ecosystem?

population, communities, nonliving parts(air,water,sunlight & soil)

500

Food chains show the movement of ___________ and matter, with arrows pointing from what gets eaten to the animal that eats it. 

energy

500

What materials are found right next to a plant?

soil, carbon dioxide (CO2), water, sunlight