Scientific Method
Vocabulary
Food Webs
Producers/Consumers
Little bit of everything
100
The process of obtaining information by using your senses is called
observation
100
Decomposer
organism that breaks down dead plants, animals and waste
100
What is the source of all of the energy on Earth?
the sun
100
The job of the producer is....
provide food for themselves and other organisms
100
a food chain begins when
an animal eats a green plant
200
What is the first thing scientists do when they need to find an answer to a question?
research the problem
200
An animal that eats only plants is called..
an herbivore
200
The algae at the beginning of the food chain are....
producers
200
The third level of the food chain is called the....
tertiary consumer
200
A secondary consumer eats...
primary consumers
300
Students notice that the fall leaves of sugar maple trees turn red, but the leaves of the black oak trees turn brown. The student is making an....
observation
300
An animal that eats both plants and animals is called....
An omnivore
300
The first level of consumers is called....
primary consumers
300
Imagine that pollution caused all the plants in an aquatic food chain to die. Would that affect the population of the largest fish?
a. yes, because the largest fish need to eat plants to supplement their diet
b. yes, because all the food energy in the chain begins with the plants
c. No, because the largest fish are big enough to survive a change in the ecosystem
d. No, because only the smallest fish depend on the plants for survival
300
What type of consumers eats only producers
herbivore
400
A testable possible answer to a scientific question is a(n)...
hypothesis
400
Animals that hunt other animals to eat are called...
predators
400
In the diagram below, which is a decomposer?
fungi or mushrooms
400
Food webs illustrate....
the energy that passes from organism to organism
400
True or false...the scientific method always begins with performing an experiment?
False, it begins with an observation
500
A procedure carried out to gather data about an object or event is a/an....
an experiment
500
A collection of food chains is called....
a food web
500
Animals at the very top of a food chain are called.....
apex predators
500
What is the energy path that goes from producers to consumers to decomposers and describes the feeding relationship in an ecosystem?
a. food web
b. food chain
500
When the food chain is disrupted by the loss of a food source, we call that.....
trophic cascade