Web of Life Vocabulary

Tiny living things in water that produce their own food, like plants do:

• algae

• bacteria

• phytoplankton

• nutrient

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Water that moves across a surface, often carrying materials with it:

• cycle

• runoff

• system

• stomata

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Algae bloom

• tiny living things in water that produces their own food, like plants do.

• an important material that exists in the air, soil, and all living things on Earth.

• a quick increase in the amount of algae growing in an area.

• a type of fungus that often decomposes food.

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A living thing that is a decomposer and has spores, such as a mold or a mushroom

• fungus

• mold

• mushroom

• decomposer

Environment

• anything that takes up space; can be different forms such as solid, liquid, or gas

• a test used to discover new information about a question

• a set of events that repeats in the same order over and over

• all the living and nonliving things in a particular place.

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An organism that is usually decomposer; some cause illness

• bacteria

• model

• stomata

• consumer

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A type of gas that animals use to breathe and that plants release

• control

• carbon

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

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An animal that eats only other animals

• decomposer

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

How living things are connected through what they eat and what they are eaten by

• food chain

• food web

• matter flow

• energy flow

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Omnivore

• an animal that only eats plants

• an animal that eats only other animals

• an animal that produces its own food

• an animal that eats both plants and animals