Food Chains - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. N-is the beginning of the food chain. It provides energy for plants to undergo photosynthesis
   N-Sun
2. O-an organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy
   O-Producer
3. G-different populations that share an ecosystem
   G-Community
4. I-are the nonliving elements in an environment. Ex: water, soil, air, light
   I- Abiotic Factor
5. O-an organism that gets energy by eating BOTH plants & other animals
   O-Omnivore
6. I-is represented by arrows. The arrows point the direction that energy moves
   I-Flow of energy
7. B- an organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals
   B-Consumer
8. I-a representation of the flow of energy amongst organisms in an ecosystem
   I-Food chain
9. O-all the interacting members of a species in a single area
   O-Population
10. G-all living and nonliving things & all their interactions in an area
    G-Ecosystem
11. N-a part of the ecosystem that is not living. Ex: oxygen, rocks, water
    N-Nonliving
12. B-are the living elements in an environment. Ex: plants, animals, bacteria
    B-Biotic Factor
13. B-process by which producer/plants use the energy in sunlight to create their own food
    B-Photosynthesis
14. N-objects that have biological processes to keep them alive. Ex: Plants & animals
    N-Living
15. O-a single, self-contained, living thing
    O-Organism
16. G-is the energy that is moved from one organism to another in the food chain. The energy decreases from one organism to the next
    G-Transfer of energy
17. I-an organism that BREAKS down the remains of dead plants & animals
    I- Decomposer
18. O-an increase in the number of individuals of a species over what its ecosystem can sustain
    O-Overpopulation
19. N-an interconnected set of food chains
    N-Food web
20. G-organism that gets energy by eating only other animals
    G-Carnivore
21. B-an action that occurs when 2 or more objects have effect on each other
    B-Interaction
22. G-an animal that eats other animals
    G-Predator
23. B-an organism that gets energy by eating only plants
    B-Herbivore
24. I-to continue alive in spite of danger or hardship
    I-Survive