Ecosystems
Fossils
Food Chains/Web
Living Things & Environment
Miscellaneous
100
Type of Ecosystem where the ground beneath the surface is frozen all year
What is a tundra
100
Bits of rock, sand, shell, and other material that harden into rock
What are sediments?
100
Grass and plants that make their own food
What is a producer
100
When two or more living things need the same resources in order to survive
What is competition
100
Animals that eat plants
What is an herbivore?
200
A group of organisms of the same kind living in an area
What is a population?
200
A type of fossil that gives clues about a living thing's activities
What is a trace fossil
200
An organism such as an earthworm that eats the remains of animals
What is a decomposer
200
Important material that living things need
What is a resource?
200
Animals that get their food by eating other animals.
What are carnivores?
300
The area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem
What is a habitat
300
The remains or mark of an animal or plant that lived long ago
What is a fossil
300
Things that are passed along in a food chain
What is energy and matter
300
They change the environment to meet their needs such as building homes.
What are humans.
300
Animals that eat plants and other animals
What are omnivores?
400
A place where plants and animals have to adapt to limited water. It is the driest ecosystem
What is a desert
400
A space in rock in the shape of a living thing
What is a mold fossil
400
The main source of energy in an ecosystem
What is sunlight?
400
An animal that causes a change to the environment to build their home and form a pond
What is a beaver?
400
To no longer exist
What is extinct?
500
All the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact
What is an ecosystyem
500
A fossil that preserves the hard and soft parts of an animal
What is a fossil in amber
500
Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
What are the types of consumers?
500
The plant that was brought to the United States which took over their environment by not allowing plants to grow and animals did not eat it.
What is the purple loosestrife?
500
A scientist who studies fossils
What is a paleontologist?