Vocabulary
All of the populations that live and interact in an area is called a ___________________.
Community
This ecosystem includes salt water, seaweed, fish, and other animals.
The ocean
Animals that are being hunted are called __________.
prey
An organism that breaks down dead organisms for food is called a ______________.
decomposer
A living thing that eats other living things is called a ____________________.
Consumer
Producers
Name an animal that is found in the grassland ecosystem.
Bison, antelope, bull snakes, wolves
What is the beginning source of all food chains?
The sun
A large amount of water that covers normally dry land is called a ______________.
All of the living and nonliving things in a place is called an __________________
Ecosystem
Animals that eat only plants are called ____________.
herbivore
Which ecosystem receives very little rain?
Desert
Animals that hunt other animals for food are called _____________.
predators
Omnivores
carnivore
Everything that surrounds a living thing is its
You will find jaguars, toucans, and monkeys in this wet ecosystem.
Give an example of an organism that would be a producer.
any type of plant
Drought
The space where a plant or animal lives is a _______________
Habitat
What is the name for all of one kind of organism living in the same area?
Population
How can animals change an ecosystem?
Beavers build a dam, termite mound
How does a food chain give animals energy?
They eat other animals to survive.
Name 2 types of decomposers.
Mushrooms, Earth worms, bacteria
What is the process called when plants use the energy from sunlight to change water and carbon dioxide into sugars?
photosynthesis