Vocabulary
Anything in the environment that can harm living things or damage natural resources
Pollution
Mild Winter
What are consumers?
Living things that eat other living things.
What is a herbivore?
An animal that only eats plants.
How do plants help the environment?
Provide shelter.
Give food to animals and humans.
Release oxygen.
Roots keep soil in place
An animal that hunts, catches, and eats other animals
Predator
What happens to trees in the winter?
They become dormant.
Which is a decomposer? Elk, Snake, or Worms
Worms
Lion or zebra
Helpful or Harmful:
Goats grazing grass in the same spot for a long period of time.
Harmful
A group of food chains that overlap
Food Web
During the winter, manatees travel to Florida's springs. What is that called?
Migration
How do humans and animals get their energy to survive?
By eating both plants and animals
What would come first in a food chain?
A wolf, grass, or a rabbit?
If there is an increase in predators, what happens to the prey?
They decrease.
An animal that eats both plants and other animals
Omnivore
What happens to the sunlight during the summer?
More hours of sunlight
How do producers get their energy?
From the sun (photosynthesis)
What will always be at the beginning of a food chain/web?
A producer
With more people moving to Florida, trees are being cut down to build houses. What happens to the animals that lived in the trees?
They lose their habitat.
A living thing that feeds on the wastes and remains of plants and animals
Decomposer
Name a state that provides food to other states in the winter.
California or Florida
What materials are used by living things for growth and for other functions?
Nutrients
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food web is a group of food chains that overlap.
Give an example of conservation.
Plant trees
reduce, reuse, and recycle