What is the main role of a producer?
a. They make their own food using light energy.
b. They eat only secondary consumers.
c. They change gases into solids.
d. They stop matter from moving.
a. They make their own food using light energy.
What does an arrow show in a food web?
What is energy?
What would be a negative effect of a human impact on a forest?
a. planting more trees
b. conserving endangered species
c. taking a moment to appreciate the trees
d. deforestation
What is "deforestation"?
Which of the following cannot be chemically divided?
a. atoms
b. molecules
What is atoms?
When we did our food coloring and water experiment, what did the molecules do?
a. they stayed in one spot
b. they vibrated in place
c. they collided with each other
d. they spread out completely
c. they collided with each other
Name the three raw materials plants use to make sugar during photosynthesis.
water (h20), carbon dioxide (C02), and sunlight
If a predator population decreases, what is a likely immediate effect on its prey population?
What is "it increases"?
In the sequence,
grass → insect → frog → snake → eagle
who is the tertiary consumer?
What is "snake"?
What are two or more atoms bonded together called?
a. an atom
b. a molecule
c. a single element
d. a neutron
What is a molecule?
Name an example of a producer.
answers will vary
What are leaves in low-light environments with broad, thin leaves called?
What are shade leaves?
Organisms have _________ that help them survive in particular environments.
What are adaptations?
In a simple pond food chain, what is an example of a producer?
a. earthworm
b. minnow
c. snake
d. water lilly
What is "water lilly"?
What has no definite shape and no definite volume?
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas
What is a gas?
Name a decomposer.
answers will vary
Why are plants called producers?
They make their own food.
What is precipitation?
What is water that falls from the sky.
What type of leaves are able to capture the most sunlight?
What are sun leaves?
What keeps its own shape and volume?
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas
What is a solid?
What is the smallest unit of an element?
atom
The ___________ is the original energy source for most food chains and webs.
What is the sun?
What is decomposer?
a. organisim that makes its own food
b. organisim that breaks down dead material
c. organisim that consumes producers
What is "organisim that breaks down dead material"?
What can I put next to my plant for it to survive in a closet?
What is a lamp?
What state of matter will change its volume and its shape to fill a container?
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas
What is a gas?
If a predator decreases, its prey may _________ because fewer are being eaten.
a. increase
b. decrease
c. stay the same
a. increase