Plants get their energy from this.
What is the sun?
Organisms that eat other organisms are examples of this.
What is a consumer?
Name an ecosystem we have created together.
What is an aquarium? or
What is the isopod habitat?
The arrows in the food chain represent this.
What is the flow of energy?
List three things a producer needs to make its own food.
What are the sun, water and air (or carbon dioxide)?
Name a producer from the Mono Lake Web.
What are: bottom or floating algae?
Food produces these two things.
What are matter and energy?
A small shrimp eats algae, a fish eats the shrimp, a penguin eats the fish and a seal eats the penguin.
What is the primary food source in this food chain?
What is algae?
Pixie and Walter are on a field trip in the forest and notice many dead plants on the floor. Walter says, "Those plants don't do anything good for the forest." What could you tell Walter about the dead plants?
Decomposers will eat the plants to keep the flow of energy moving.
A mushroom is classified as this.
Decomposer.
Bees need flowers for nectar and pollen, but flowers need bees for this important function.
What is pollination?
When hawks die, they contribute to the food web in this way.
What is by providing final bits of energy to decomposers?
John wants to grow a sunflower. He makes sure his sunflower has sun, water, air and other organisms. Name the item the sunflower does not need.
What are other organisms?
What is an omnivore?
Name two types of seed dispersal.
What is the wind, animals carrying seeds away, animals dropping seeds, animals spreading seeds through their scat.
About 50,000 gulls migrate to Mono Lake in the spring to feast on this, the most important animal in this food web.
What are brine shrimp?
Name an adaptation of a cactus.
What is its green trunk that produces chlorophyll?
Name a producer that you think is delicious.
What is any edible plant?
Name two non-living environmental factors in the aquatic environment we created.
What are gravel, water, light?
In Mono Lake, almost all of the birds feed off of the brine shrimp. If the salinity (salt level) is too low or too high, most brine shrimp will not hatch. If there are fewer brine shrimp for all of the birds, the birds are now facing this situation.
What is food competition?