🟢 Ecosystem Basics
(General definitions students need to recognize)
(General definitions students need to recognize)
Any living thing such as plants, animals, fungi, or bacteria.
What is an organism?
The part of the plant that absorbs water from the soil.
Response: What are roots?
An organism that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
Plants and trees are examples of this type of organism.
What are producers?
This gas helps people and animals breathe.
What is oxygen?
A community of organisms and their environment OR This is a place where living and nonliving things live together.
What is an ecosystem?
This moves water to all parts of the plant.
What is the stem?
An organism that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
Mice, rabbits, and fish are often examples of this.
What is prey?
What is prey?
Plants need this from the sun to make food.
What is sunlight?
This shows who eats who in a straight line.
What is a food chain?
This part uses sunlight to make food.
What is a leaf?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Wolves, bears, and lions are examples of this.
What are predators?
Plants take in this gas to make food.
What is carbon dioxide?
A system of interrelated food chains. OR This shows many food chains connected together.
What is a food web?
This is the ground where plants grow.
What is soil?
An organism that hunts and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
Fungi and mushrooms are examples of this.
What are decomposers?
This is how plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
An organism that eats another organism for energy.
What is a consumer?
This plant part’s main job is helping the plant make food using sunlight.
What is the leaf?
An organism that is hunted and eaten by another.
What is prey?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
These break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?