Food Chains, Predators, Herbivores & Carnivores
Plant Needs: Air & Water
Decomposers, Nutrients, & Matter Cycle
Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
100

An animal that eats other animals for food.

What is a carnivore?

100

Trees eat soil. True or false.

What is false?

100

These are the things that grow on leaves to decompose them on the forest floor.  They are white strings.

What are mushrooms roots?

100

An organism that makes its own food.

What are producers?

100

The study of properties of matter and how matter changes

What is chemistry?

200

An animal that eats only plants.

What is an herbivore?

200

A giant Sequoia that weighs 4 million pounds

What is General Sherman?
200

Leaves disappear from the forest floor because they ___________________ after mushroom roots release a liquid.

What is decompose?

200

They break down waste and dead material into nutrients for plants.

What are decomposers?

200

A decomposer, like mushrooms or mold, that reproduce through spores.

What is fungus?

300

An animal that eats both plants and other animals.

What is an omnivore?

300

Mushrooms, mold, and fungi.

What are decomposers?

300

This type of fungus eats dead leaves, insects, and wood.

What are mushrooms?

300

The loose weathered material on Earth's surface.

What is soil?

300

Something that changes in an experiment in order to test a hypothesis.

What is variable?

400

When you go “down” the food chain by continuing to ask “What does it eat?” at what category of living things do you always end up?

What is plants (producers)?

400

Worms are the ONLY kind of decomposers. True or false.

What is false?

400

The black material left behind after leaves decompose.

What is soil?

400

A type of giant redwood tree

What is a Sequoia?

400

Tiny openings on the underside of a plant that take in air.

What are stomata?

500

Several food chains are linked to each other.

What is a food web?

500

The state that most of the giant redwood trees, including General Sherman are located.

Where is California?

500

True or False- Mushroom spores are constantly floating in the air.

What is true?

500

In an experiment, the standard that is used for comparison.

What is the control?

500

A part of fungus that contain offspring.

What are spores?