Food Chains
Resources
Food Webs
Photosynthesis
Biomes
100
What is 'A'?
100
Which type of resource can be replaced within our lifetime?
What is a renewable resource?
100
What starts the beginning of a food chain?
Producer
100
A student wants to grow a sunflower plant. He knows it is a producer and can make its own food.
The plant needs what things to make its own food?
Sun, water, carbon dioxide.
100
This biome covers 75% of earth and can be found in or near each continent.
Aquatic ecosystems. Oceans.
200
A mushroom is an example of what?
What is a decomposer?
200
A disadvantage of burning coal for energy is....
Answers vary.....examples: We will run out of it someday. It causes pollution. It is expensive.
200
These two species of birds, the egret and heron, eat the same types of fish as their main diet. They live in the same ecosystem.
How would the egrets in this area MOST LIKELY respond if all of the herons were removed from the area?
They would have an increase in population.
200
What prevents the small trees in the forest from growing larger?
Less sunlight reaches the smaller trees.
200
Which biome has the most biodiversity (variety of plants and animals)?
Rainforest
300
How do decomposers help other organisms in an ecosystem?
What is they break down dead organisms and add nutrients back to the soil that plants use?
300
What is a disadvantage of using wind energy?
The wind doesn't blow all of the time. Noisy. Expensive to set up.
300
How would herbivores in the grassland ecosystem be affected by a drought?
There would be fewer numbers of organism that eats producers.
300
What gas is a by-product of photosynthesis?
Oxygen
300
In which biome does an organism have to be able to conserve water to survive? Plants in this biome have deep roots that run down deep into the ground.
Desert
400
How are primary and secondary consumers different?
What is primary consumers are only herbivores and secondary consumers can eat meat and plants?
400
List the fossil fuels
CON
Coil
Oil
Natural Gas
400
In 2011, fires in Bastrop County, Texas, were the most destructive wildfires in Texas history. The fire spread through the Loblolly pine trees and scorched nearly 5,700 acres of Bastrop State Park.
The majority of the Houston Toad’s habitat was lost, and the Lost Pines Forest was heavily affected. A food web of the Bastrop State Park environment is shown below. The loss of habitat for the Houston Toad most likely affected the food web by....
causing an increase in the number of insects
400
Chlorophyll is the PART of a producer that absorbs sunlight. Where does this take place?
The leaf
400
How are abiotic and biotic different?
Abiotic is nonliving and biotic is living
500
What do the arrows represent in a food chain?
What is flow of energy?
500
What are fossil fuels?
An energy source formed in the Earth's crust from decayed organic material.
500
Look at the desert food web.
What organism will possibly die out if the feather grass were removed from the desert?
Grasshoppers
500
How do gasses enter and exit the leaf of a plant?
Through the stomata.
500
What do plants on the rainforest floor have big broad leaves?
To catch the little sunlight that makes it to the forest floor.