Food Chains and Webs

1. Food Chains and Webs Vocabulary

2. Draw a line to match the terms with their definition. • Food web • Organism • Food chain • Ecosystem • Biome • Ecosystems that have similar characteristics • All the connected food chains in an ecosystem • Any living thing • A community of living and nonliving parts of an environment • The movement of energy form one organism to another in an ecosystem Move the mouse to the bottom left corner to activate the pen.

3. Drag and drop to fill in the blanks. • ______________________ is an animal with no backbone. • ____________________ are organisms that make their own food and provide energy in food chains. • _______________________ are animals that eat only animals. • A ___________________ is an animal that eats only plants. • __________________ are made of billions of micro-droplets of water. • The total surroundings and forces that act upon a living thing is _________________________________. • An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms is a ___________________________. • An animal with a backbone is a ________________________________. producer carnivores vertebrate environment invertebrates consumer herbivore habitat

4. Drag and drop to fill in the blanks. • ______________________ are animals that are hunted and eaten by another animal. • Any characteristic that helps an organism to survive in its environment is an _______________________________. • _______________________ are animals that eat both plants and animals. • An adaptation that allows an animal to blend in with its environment is ____________________. • ____________________ is dark and light colors that are a form of camouflage. • Animals that hunt other animals for food are _______________________. • The way an organism acts when it responds to a stimulus is _____________. counter shading camouflage behavior environment omnivore habitat prey predators

5. Draw a line to match. • A species of plant or animal whose numbers are decreasing at an alarming rate and are threatened with extinction by changes in its environment. • The careful and wise use of all resources. • An organism that no longer exists on Earth. • extinct • Endangered species • conservation Move the mouse to the bottom left corner to activate the pen.