Vocabulary 1
A group of organisms that live in the same area and interact with one another.
What is Community?
A living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things.
What is Consumer?
These things are needed for photosynthesis to occur.
What is Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight, and Water?
Trees, grass and lettuce are all examples of this.
What is a Producer?
Black Bear, Insects, and Birch Tree are examples of this in an ecosystem.
What are Living Things?
A community of organisms and the environment in which they live.
What is Ecosystem?
All of the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism.
What is Environment?
This is produced when photosynthesis occurs.
Whale, octopus, dog, lizard, and chicken are examples of this.
What are Consumers?
Rocks, Water, and Air are all examples of this in an ecosystem.
What are Nonliving things?
The place where an organism lives and can find everything it needs to survive.
What is Habitat?
The role that a plant or animal plays in its habitat.
What is Niche?
___________ absorbs water from soil.
What are Root?
Animals do not use the energy from their food for this.
What is Photosynthesis?
These two groups are the only ones that contain ONLY living things.
What are Population and Community?
The process that plants use to make sugar.
What is Photosynthesis?
All the organisms of the same kind that live together in a given area.
What is Population?
______________ allow the plant to take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
What is Stomata?
The more _________ a consumer eats, the more energy it receives.
What is calories?
A mouse and a snake would have this type of relationship.
What is predator/prey?
An animal that hunts, catches, and eats other animals.
Animals that are caught and eaten by predators.
What is Prey?
Light energy from the sun is captured by structures in ___________.
What is Leaves?
This is the original source of energy used to grow food.
What is the Sun?
Reasons why living things compete for resources.
What is the resources in an ecosystem are limited and all living things need resources to survive?