Types of Consumers
Symbiotic Relationships
ConVecTioN
Potential & Kinetic ENerGy
Fun Facts
100

An animal that only eats consumers

What is a carnivore?

100

When both species benefit...

What is mutualism?

100

Warm air rises because...

What is it has less density?

100

1. Energy in motion is __________. 

2. Stored energy is ____________. 

1. What is kinetic energy?

2. What is potential energy?

100

This is heat transfer through...

What is conduction?

200

A type of consumer that only eats producers

What is an herbivore?
200

An interaction when one species benefits and the other is harmed

What is parasitism?

200

The molecules in warm air have more _________ energy. 

What is thermal?

200

How can we decrease the kinetic energy of an object?

What is decrease its mass or speed?

200

What energy transformation is occuring? 

What is gravitational potential to kinetic? 

300

An animal that eats plants and animals

What is an omnivore?

300

Barnacles attach themselves to whales. The whale is not helped nor harmed. This is an example of...

What is commensalism?
300

Cold air sinks because its molecules are __________. 

What is closer together?

Will also accept "more dense".

300

When an object is compressed or stretched out of its normal position. 

What is elastic potential energy?

300

What happens to air pressure as we increase altitude?

 

What is decreases? 

400


A consumer that eats producers.

What is a primary consumer?

400

The cowbird laid its eggs in another bird's nest. The cowbird chick will get nutrients meant for the other chick. This is an example of...


What is parasitism?

400

According to convection, wind and water currents should travel in a straight path. Due to the coriolis effect wind and ocean currents are curved? What causes them travel in a curved path?

What is the rotation of the Earth?
400

Which car has more kinetic energy? (Why?)

What is the purple car? (because it has a greater speed)
400

How does the California Current impact the west coast of the United States?

What is "makes it cooler"?

cooler climate

lowers temperatures

500

Which consumer level would the hawk be on in an energy pyramid?


What is tertiary consumer? 

500

Bees get food from flowers. This helps pollinate the flower so it can grow seeds. This is an example of...

What is mutualism?

500

Describe the movement of ocean currents due to convection and salininty. 

Warm water rises, cold water sinks

Water with more salinity will sink to the bottom because it is more dense

Warm water rises from the equator 

Cold water sinks from the poles

500

Describe 3 of the energy transformations below.

Example answers:

Chemical to electrical

Kinetic to gravitational potential

Chemical to thermal

Hydro to kinetic

Kinetic to electrical

500


This diagram represents a _________. 

What is a rain shadow? 

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