Our Dynamic Earth Cue Cards

Question 1

a number of food chains joined together

Answer 1

Food Webs

Question 2

The green-coloured chemical in plants that absorbs light energy used in photosynthesis to make food from carbon dioxide and water.

Answer 2

Chlorophyll

Question 3

organisms that use photosynthesis to make their own food from the sun.

Answer 3

Producers

Question 4

Animals that eat other animals

Answer 4

Carnivore

Question 5

Organisms of one particular species in a given area at one time

Answer 5

Population

Question 6

a group of organisms with many features in common that can mate with each to produce fertile young under natural conditions

Answer 6

Species

Question 7

a diagram showing feeding relationships in an ecosystem

Answer 7

Food Chain

Question 8

a feeding level within a food chain

Answer 8

Trophic Level

Question 9

organisms that can produce their own nutrients

Answer 9

Autotrophs

Question 10

Organisms that rely on other organisms for food

Answer 10

Consumers

Question 11

Animals that only eat plants

Answer 11

Herbivore

Question 12

Animals that eat plants and other animals

Answer 12

Omnivore

Question 13

organism that eats secondary consumers

Answer 13

Tertiary Consumer

Question 14

a relationship where one organism benefits without affecting the other

Answer 14

Commensalism

Question 15

the chemical reaction involving oxygen that moves the energy in glucose into compound ATP

Answer 15

Cellular Respiration

Question 16

organisms that depend on another organism to supply their complex molecules and energy

Answer 16

Heterotrophs

Question 17

A process which carbon dioxide, water and energy from the sun to produce food in the form of sugar.

Answer 17

Photosynthesis

Question 18

small organisms that break down dead and decaying matter.

Answer 18

Decomposers

Question 19

organisms that eat plants

Answer 19

Primary Consumer

Question 20

a relationship between two organisms in which both benefit

Answer 20

Mutualism

Question 21

organisms that consume detritus; that is decomposing plant and/or animal parts or faeces

Answer 21

Detritivores

Question 22

organism that eats primary consumers.

Answer 22

Secondary Consumer

Question 23

the range of environmental conditions in which a species can survive

Answer 23

Tolerance Range

Question 24

the organism on which a parasite feeds

Answer 24

Host

Question 25

populations of various species living in a given area at the same time

Answer 25

Community

Question 26

community of living things that interact with each other and with the environment in which they live

Answer 26

Ecosystem

Question 27

A place in which an organism lives

Answer 27

Habitat