Food Webs
Q: What do we call an animal that eats only plants?
A: Herbivore
Q: Is a rock living or non-living?
A: Non-living
Q: What is a vertebrate?
A: An animal with a backbone.
Q: What is a dichotomous key used for?
A: To identify and classify living things.
Q: What is a carnivore?
A: An animal that eats other animals.
Q: What role does the sun play in a food web?
A: It provides energy to producers (plants).
Q: Name one thing all living things do.
A: Grow, breathe, move, reproduce, or eat.
Q: Name the 5 groups of vertebrates.
A: Fish, mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
Q: What does “dichotomous” mean?
A: Divided into two parts.
Q: What kind of organism breaks down dead plants and animals?
A: Decomposer
Q: What is a food chain?
A: A sequence that shows how each living thing gets food.
Q: What’s one difference between dead and non-living things?
A: Dead things were once alive; non-living things never were.
Q: Which group of vertebrates lays eggs and has feathers?
A: Birds
Q: In a dichotomous key, each step gives you how many choices?
A: Two
What do the arrows in a food web represent?
The flow of energy and who eats who
Q: What happens if one animal in a food web goes extinct?
A: It can affect the whole food web and cause imbalance.
Q: Is water living, non-living, or dead?
A: Non-living
Q: Which vertebrate group can live both on land and in water?
A: Amphibians
Q: If an animal has fur and gives birth to live young, what key feature does this suggest?
A: It is a mammal.
Q: A kangaroo is a mammal. What makes it different from most other mammals?
A: It carries its baby in a pouch (it’s a marsupial).
Q: Which organism is always at the base of a food web?
A: Producer (like plants or algae)
Q: What do we call the 7 processes that all living things do?
A: MRS GREN (Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, Nutrition)
Name 3 characteristics of a mammal?
Has fur, produces milk, warm blooded
Q: A dichotomous key helps scientists with what kind of work?
A: Classifying and identifying species.
Q: What does cold-blooded mean?
A: An animal’s body temperature changes with the environment.