Food Chain
Vocabulary
Energy
YUM!
EWW!
100

All energy on Earth comes from this.

What is the sun?

100

Everything that a living thing.

What is environment?

100

The way plants use sunlight to make food.

What is photosynthesis?

100

Living things too small to be seen with just our eyes.

What are microorganisms?

100

This is a living thing smaller than a protist.

What is bacteria?

200

An animal that eats mostly plants.

What is a herbivore?

200

Any living thing that makes, or produces, its own food.

What is a producer?

200

Deer, rabbits, grasshoppers, squirrels and cows are these.

What are herbivores?

200

A living thing that eats other living thing.

What is a consumer?

200

These break down dead plants and animals and return them to the soil.

What are decomposers?

300

A way of showing how food chains in any place are linked together.

What is a food web?

300

Carbon dioxide enters a leaf through this.  It is on the bottom of leaves.

What is stomata?

300

A wasp is this.

What is a carnivore?

300

This is a kind of protist that lives in ponds.

What is algae or euglena? 

300

This is the smallest microorganism.

What is bacteria?

400

An animal that eats both plants an animals.

What is an omnivore?

400

This is the Earth's largest living animal.

What is an elephant?

400

This is everything in an environment.

What is biomass?

400

What did farmers do in Australia that harmed the environment?

They brought in giant toads to eat insects to protect the sugar cane, but instead the toads ate birds and lizards and even people.

400

A plant like thing that breaks down dead plants and animals.

What is fungus?

500

Plants make this for themselves and other living things.  Starts with an "O".

What is oxygen?

500

Plants look green because of this.

What is chlorophyll?

500

Where does a mustard plant get its energy.

What is the sun?

500

A beetle is this.

What is a decomposer?

500

This is a type of fungus?

What is a mushroom or mold?