Life Science Vocabulary Review

Front

What is the green pigment in plants that makes it possible for them to make food from carbon dioxide and water?

Back

Chlorophyll

Front

_______ are a part of food and soil that helps living things stay healthy and grow.

Back

Nutrients

Front

A method of growing plants in water instead of soil is called _______.

Back

Hydroponics

Front

What is a living thing that makes its own food?

Back

Producer

Front

A living thing that eats plants or animals is a _______.

Back

Consumer

Front

A ________ is a network of food chains that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem.

Back

Food Web

Front

_______ is an organism that breaks down dead organisms and the waste of living things.

Back

Decomposer

Front

_______ are organisms such as molds and mushrooms, that have no chlorophyll and live on dead and decaying things. These are decomposers.

Back

Fungi

Front

Certain kinds of one-celled living things are called ________. These are decomposers.

Back

Bacteria

Front

______ is all living things and nonliving things in an area and their interactions.

Back

Ecosystem