ecosystems

2. Consumer – The first animal in a food chain that eats plants, like a grasshopper eating grass.
3. – A group of animals or plants that are the same, like all dogs belong to the dog species.
5. – A poison that can harm animals, plants, or people.
8. – Everything around us, like air, water, land, and all the plants and animals.
9. – All the living things (animals, plants, and people) that live together in one place and depend on each other.
11. – A group of the same kind of animals or plants living in one place, like all the zebras in a grassland.
12. – An animal that eats only plants, like a cow or a rabbit.
14. – A living thing that eats plants or other animals to get energy.
15. – An animal that gets hunted and eaten by a predator, like a rabbit or a fish.
16. Web – A group of food chains that are connected, showing how many animals eat different things.
17. – The place where an animal or plant lives, like a forest, ocean, or desert.
18. – When harmful things like poisons or chemicals build up inside animals over time, especially when they eat other animals that have the same poison.

1. Level – The different steps in a food chain, showing who eats what. Plants are the first level, plant-eating animals are the second, and meat-eating animals are the third.
2. – The way plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and air.
4. – An animal that eats only meat, like a lion or a wolf.
6. – An animal that eats both plants and meat, like a bear or a human.
7. – The big, hot star in the sky that gives us light and heat, and helps plants grow.
10. Chain – A way to show how animals get their food. It starts with plants, which are eaten by small animals, and then bigger animals eat the smaller ones.
11. – An animal that hunts and eats other animals, like a tiger or an eagle.
13. – A place where living things (plants and animals) and non-living things (air, water, and soil) work together.