Ecosystems Vocabulary

An animal that eats BOTH plants and animals

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

A living thing that makes its own food from sunlight, air, and soil is called a _______________.

• Predator

• Prey

• Producer

• Consumer

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The gradual change of an ecosystem is called _________________

• Extinction

• Succession

• Abiotic Factor

• Biotic Factor

A living thing the cannot make its own food, so it must eat things.

• Biotic Factor

• Abiotic Factor

• Producer

• Consumer

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A horse eats grains and hay. A horse is an example of a(n) ______________.

• Herbivore

• Carnviore

• Omnivore

• Producer

Which of the following lists is made up of ONLY biotic factors?

(All 3 in the choice must be biotic.)

• rocks, birds, water

• soil, sun, clouds

• trees, birds, frogs

• bird, sand, temperature

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A lion hunts a zebra. The lion is an example of a ________________

• Abiotic Factor

• Predator

• Prey

• Ecosystem

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If a species of animal has completely died out, it has now become ____________.

• Succession

• Endangered

• Extinct

• Ecosystem

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An ecosystem is _____________________________-

• Nonliving things in an area.

• A living thing that eats only meat.

• The gradual change of an area.

• All of the living and nonliving things in an area and how they interact.

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A seagull is captured and eaten by an alligator. The seagull would be called the__________________.

• Predator

• Prey

• Abiotic Factor

• Producer