Vocabulary
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Food Chains and More
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An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
100
An animal that eats plants or other animals.
What is a consumer?
100

A model that shows how much energy flows through a food web.

What is a energy pyramid?

100

Why are decomposers important organisms in a food web? A) They produce oxygen. B) They prey on carnivores. C) They are food for producers D) They return nutrients to the soil

What is they return nutrients to the soil?

100

Primary Consumers are also known as what type of the 3 consumers?

What is Herbivore?

200
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
200
An organism that breaks down dead or decaying plant or animal material.
What is a decomposer?
200

Consider this food chain: grass=> grasshopper=> mouse => snake Which organism is an herbivore?

What is the grasshopper?

200

Consider the food chain: grass=> grasshopper=> frog=> snake What would happen in the ecosystem if the grasshopper population died? A) snakes would eat the grasshopper B) it would be fine, frogs prefer other insects anyway C) it would be fine, the grass population would increase D) the frog population would die from the decrease in their food supply

What is D, the frog population would die from the decrease in their food supply?

200

Which type of organism is a fungus (fungi)/ bacteria? A) carnivore B) omnivore C) herbivore D) decomposer

What is D, decomposer?

300
An organism that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
300
A network of food chains that have some links in common.
What is a food web?
300
Consider this food chain: blackberries=> bird=> cat Which organism is the carnivore?
What is the cat?
300

A consumer may be a ___________, a __________, or a ___________

What is an omnivore, an herbivore, or a carnivore

300

make a food chain with the following: -mouse -snake -seeds -hawk

What is seeds - mouse - snake - hawk?

400
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400

A carnivore that hunts other animals

What is predator?

400
Consider this food chain: acorns=> squirrels=> hawks Which of these is the producer?
What are the acorns?
400

Which of the following organism is a secondary consumer in the food chain? A) hawk B) gorilla C) squirrel D) earthworm

What is a Squirrel?

400

What describes organisms place in food chains

What is Trophic levels

500
A diagram that shows the flow of energy from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
500

An animal that is being hunted 

What is prey?

500

In a Mississippi swamp, alligators and great blue herons eat fish. Which type of organism is the great blue heron? A) decomposer B) carnivore C) herbivore D) producer

What is a carnivore?

500

A certain type of bear mainly eats trout. If the trout population declines, what will most likely happen to the bear population? A) it will decrease B) it will increase C) it will remain the same D) it will increase and then decrease

What is it will decrease?

500

In a Mississippi swamp ecosystem, would you expect the alligator or fish population to be bigger? A) fish, because they feed more predators B) fish, because alligators can't see them very well C) alligators, because they are at the top of the food chain D) alligators, because they have to eat a lot

What is A, because fish feed more predators?

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