Vocabulary
The most closely related group of living things that are able to mate and produce more of the same kind of living things.
What is a species?
Makes up about 2/3 of your body.
What is water?
Plants and plant-like living things.
What are producers?
A type of flowchart that shows how living things are connected to each other by the food they eat.
What is a food chain?
The substance that absorbs light energy from the sun.
What is chlorophyll?
A place that provides living things with oxygen, water, food, shelter, and anything else they need for survival.
What is a habitat?
All of the energy we use ultimately comes from this source.
What is the sun?
An organism that has to seek out and eat, or consume, other living things for food.
What is a consumer?
Food chains follow the pathway of this as it flows through ecosystems.
What is energy?
Plants use sunlight, oxygen, water, and this gas to make food.
What is carbon dioxide?
What is biotic.
Includes carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals.
What are nutrients?
Animals that consume mainly plants and plant-like living things.
What are herbivores?
A network of multiple, interconnected, food chains within an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
The process of photosynthesis releases this gas.
What is oxygen?
Non-living things.
What is abiotic?
Chemical reactions use this to break down our food and provide us with energy.
What is oxygen?
Animals that consume mainly other animals.
What are carnivores?
Consumers that feed off remains of living things.
What are scavengers?
The process that uses oxygen to release the energy stored in the plant's food.
What is cellular respiration?
Interactions and relationships between living and non-living things.
What is an ecosystem?
This can help living things live in not-so-suitable living conditions by providing safety and comfort.
What are shelters.
Animals, like humans, that consume other animals as well as plants.
What are omnivores?
Consumers that break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
Your life, and the lives of almost all other food consumers are totally dependent on this process.
What is photosynthesis?