How do living things interact?
How do living things get energy?
How do living things compete?
How do environments change?
Vocabulary
100
The yucca moth and the yucca flower's interaction is important. This is an example of this type of interaction.
What is two kinds helping each other?
100
A source of energy for producers.
What is the sun?
100
When two or more living things need the same resources, we say that they are in ____ with one another.
What is competition?
100
Something created when a beaver makes a dam.
What is a wetland?
100
Something that creates energy.
What is a producer?
200
There is safety in numbers so geese travel together. This is an example of this type of interaction.
What is an example of helping in groups?
200
A source of energy for consumers.
What is food?
200
Sometimes these two types of living things compete for resources.
What are humans and animals?
200
Animal homes are flooded or washed away.
What is the effect of a hurricane on the environment?
200
This is a relationship where one animal is eaten and one animal is eating.
What is a predator/prey relationship?
300
A tree helps moss by letting it grow on its branch. This is an example of this type of interaction.
What is one kind helping another?
300
A type of consumer that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
300
Traits that might help a lion compete for prey.
What are speed, strength, sharp teeth, or claws?
300
Water carries rich soil from one place to another. This helps plants grow.
What are the effects of a flood that improve an area?
300
They both show what is eating what, but one is more complicated.
What is alike and different between a food web and a food chain?
400
An example of one kind of living thing helping another thing.
What is a barnacle and whale interaction?
400
A type of consumer that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
400
Two things that animals compete for...
What are food, mates, oxygen, prey, shelter, resources, or space?
400
Examples include: floods, hurricanes, volcanoes, and forest fires.
What are natural occurrences?
400
Two animals need the same resource, but there isn't enough to share.
What is competition?
500
An example of helping in groups.
What is a bee/flower interaction?
500
An example of a food chain using vocabulary words.
What is producer-consumer (herbivore)-consumer (carnivore)-consumer (omnivore)
500
Competition between animals sometimes follows a ____. Give an example!
What is a competition cycle? Example: Cows eat grass. There is a lot of grass and not much competition so more cows come. All of the grass gets eaten quickly because there are so many cows. Cows move away from the area and there is less competition. When there is less competition, more grass grows and then more cows come back to the field. This is a cycle.
500
They are living things that break down waste and things that have died. They return materials to the soil.
What are decomposers?
500
A type of cycle.
What is a competition cycle?