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6.2 & 6.3 Vocabulary
By Keona
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nutrients | Food for the animals to be able to live in their habitat |
| Predetors | Animals that eat other animals |
| Prey | Animals that are hunted for by other animals |
| Competitors | When there are two animals eat the same food and they fight for it. This can also be about territory or mating partners. |
| Food Chain | Flow of energy from organism to organism. |
| Photosynthesis | When the plants trap the sunlight in their leaves and use chemical called chlorophyll to help them use the sunlight to make carbohydrates. |
| Producers | Species that are able to make their own foods. |
| Consumers | Food eaters |
| Herbivores | Consumers that can only eat plants |
| Carnivores | Those that only eats other animals |
| Omnivores | Consumers that eats both plants and animals |
| Decomposers | Those who break down bodies of dead matters and recycle them. Are important to keep the food cycle going. |
| Food Web | A number of food chains joint together |
| Biomass | Total quantity of organisms put together in a pyramid form. |
| Diurnal | Species that are active during the day. |
| Nocturnal | Species that are active during the night. |