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Plants/Animals
Habitats, Ecosystems, 3rd Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an environment. |
| community | All the LIVING things in an ecosystem. |
| population | All the members of a single type of living thing in an ecosystem. |
| habitat | The home of living things. |
| producer | An organism such as a plant that makes its own food from water, air, and sunlight. |
| consumer | An organism that eats other organisms such as producers and consumers. |
| food chain | A series of organisms that depend on one another for food. |
| decomposer | An organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material. |
| food web | Several chains that are connected. |
| energy pyramid | A diagram that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem. |
| carbon dioxide and oxygen cycles | The process of passing oxygen and carbon dioxide from one population to another in both water and land habitats. |
| predator | An animal that hunts other animals for food. |
| prey | The animals that the predators eat. |
| scavenger | An animal that gets its food from dead organisms. |
| parasite | An organism that lives on or inside another organism or host. |
| host | An organism that a parasite lives on or inside. |