1. Teaching With Teaching Slides Ecosystems Vocabulary Clickers Interactive Presentation Created by: Cindy Jarrett Cindy Jarrett Teaching Slides Ecosystems Vocabulary

2. 0 of 5 1. Consumer 2. Decomposer 3. Producer 4. Scavenger

3. Producer: any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that the animals need. Producer:

4. 0 of 5 1. Habitat 2. Community 3. Population 4. Ecosystem

5. Ecosystem – All the living and non-living things in an area and their interactions with each other.

6. 0 of 5 1. Producer 2. Decomposer 3. Consumer 4. Scavenger

7. Decomposers – any of the fungi or bacteria that break down dead plant and animals into useful things like minerals and rich soil.

8. MEMBERS OF A KINGDOM THAT CONTAIN ONE CELLED AND MANY- CELLED LIVING THINGS THAT ABSORB FOOD THROUGH THEIR ENVIRONMENT. A DECOMPOSER- MUSHROOMS ARE AN EXAMPLE. 0 of 5 1. Scavengers 2. Fungi 3. Carnivores 4. Herbivores

9. Fungi Fungi: members of a kingdom that contain one celled and many-celled living things that absorb food through their environment. A decomposer- mushrooms are an example.

10. 0 of 5 1. Scavenger 2. Herbivores 3. Threatened 4. Decomposer a meat eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals.

11. Scavenger - a meat eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals.

12. 0 of 5 1. Community 2. Population 3. Niche 4. Habitat

13. Habitat: the place where a population lives.

14. 0 of 5 1. Germination 2. Organism 3. Population 4. Habitat

15. Organisms – living things that are capable of reacting to stimuli, reproduction and growth.

16. 0 of 5 1. Taiga 2. Deciduous 3. Temperate 4. Rainforest

17. Taiga - a cool, forest biome of conifers in the upper Northern Hemisphere Taiga - a cool, forest biome of conifers in the upper Northern Hemisphere.

18. 0 of 5 1. Mustard 2. Elodea 3. Alfalfa 4. Wheat

19. Alfalfa Alfalfa –a flowering plant in the pea family. Grown to feed livestock Alfalfa –a flowering plant in the pea family. Grown to feed livestock.

20. 0 of 5 1. Alfalfa 2. Duckweed 3. Rye 4. Elodea

21. Elodea – is a perennial aquatic plant often called water weeds. Often used in aquariums.

22. 0 of 5 1. Elodea 2. Rye 3. Alfalfa 4. Mustard

23. Mustard – a plant species that grows very small seeds that can be ground to use as a spice. The plant itself can be eaten as greens as well. Seeds

24. 0 of 5 1. Wheat 2. Rye 3. Mustard 4. Elodea

25. Wheat – A world wide cultivated grass that is harvested and the seed is ground into flour to make bread. Second largest crop in the world.

26. 0 of 5 1. Taiga 2. Tundra 3. Desert 4. Rainforest

27. Tundra - a cold, treeless biome of the far North, marked by spongy topsoil.

28. 0 of 5 1. Sun 2. Carbohydrate 3. Petroleum 4. Magma

29. Sun – the source of all energy to our planet.

30. 0 of 5 1. Carnivorous 2. Parasitism 3. Symbiosis 4. Competition

31. Symbiosis- symbiotic –a mutually beneficial relationship between two kinds of organisms over time.

32. 0 of 5 1. Precipitation 2. Hail 3. Snow 4. Acid Rain

33. Acid rain –moisture that falls to the Earth after being mixed with wastes from burned fossil fuels.

34. 0 of 5 1. Symbiosis 2. Food chain 3. Photosynthesis 4. Germination

35. Photosynthesis – the food making process in green plants that uses sunlight.

36. 0 of 5 1. Germination 2. Decomposition 3. Photosynthesis 4. Gestation

37. Germination – the sprouting of a seed into a new plant.

38. 0 of 5 1. Community 2. Individual 3. Population 4. Niche

39. Individual – a single member of a species.

40. 0 of 5 1. Population 2. Individual 3.Habitat 4. Community

41. Population – all the members of one species in an area Population – all the members of one species in an area.

42. 0 of 5 1. Individual 2. Population 3. Habitat 4. Community

43. Community – all the populations living in one area.

44. 0 of 5 1. Habitat 2. Niche 3. Food Chain 4. Individual

45. Niche –the role an organism has in its ecosystem.

46. 0 of 5 1. Desert 2. Taiga 3. Tundra 4. Prairie

48. 0 of 5 1. Food Web 2. Competition 3. Food Chain 4. Energy Pyramid

49. Food chain – the path of the energy in food from one organism to another.

50. 0 of 5 1. Food Web 2. Food Chain 3. Energy Pyramid 4. Competition

51. Food web – the overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

52. 0 of 5 1. Food Chain 2. Food Web 3. Ph Paper 4. Energy Pyramid

54. 0 of 5 1. Niche 2. Competition 3. Population 4. Habitat

56. 0 of 5 1. Deciduous Forest 2. Rain Forest 3. Tundra 4. Taiga

57. Deciduous forest – a forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each autumn.

58. 0 of 5 1. Hibernation 2. Migration 3. Instinct 4. Learned Behavior

59. Learned behavior - a learned behavior is a behavior that was observed by an individual that they find it to be beneficial to them in some way.

60. 0 of 5 1. Road Salt 2. Increased Nutrients 3. Acid Rain 4. Pollution

61. Increased nutrients- increased nutrients added to the environment can create algae blooms which can choke out existing organisms in an aquatic ecosystem.

62. 0 of 5 1. Protected 2. Threatened 3. Extinct 4. Endangered

63. Extinct – no longer exists. This organism will no longer be found alive on the earth.

64. 0 of 5 1. Tundra 2. Tropical Rain Forest 3. Desert 4. Deciduous Forest

65. Tropical rainforest – a hot, humid biome near the equator, with much rainfall and a wide variety of life.

66. 0 of 5 1. Endangered 2. Protected 3. Extinct 4. Threatened

67. Endangered - a species threatened with extinction; broadly : anyone or anything whose continued existence is threatened.

68. 0 of 5 1. Endangered 2. Threatened 3. Protected 4. Extinct

69. Threatened - having an uncertain chance of continued survival ; specifically : likely to become an endangered species

70. 0 of 5 1. Pollutant 2. Wind Erosion 3. Germination 4. Water Erosion

71. Pollutant- an unnatural substance added to the Earth’s land, water or air.

72. 0 of 5 1. Taiga 2. Tundra 3. Grassland 4. Deciduous Forest

73. Grasslands – a biome where grasses, not trees, are the main plant life. Prairies are one kind of grassland region.

74. 0 of 5 1. Thermometer 2. Aneometer 3. Ph paper 4. H 2 O

75. Ph-Paper – Used to determine the measure of its ph which tells the level of acidic, neutral or basic of a substance.

76. 0 of 5 1. Instinct 2. Learned Behavior 3. Extinct 4. Habitat