Vicious Vocabulary
Vigorous Vocabulary
Labs
Mystery
Critical Thinking
100
A living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
100
A living thing that can't make its own food and must eat other living things.
What is a consumer?
100
This is considered a decomposer we put on one banana in our experiment.
What is yeast?
100
What do producers and consumers need to stay alive?
Energy
200
An animal that eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
200
A living thing that feeds on the wastes of plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
200
What does yeast do to the banana?
It breaks down the banana into very small pieces and "eats" some of those pieces.
200
Name two producers that live in water.
Algae and seaweed
300
An environment that meets the needs of an organism.
What is a habitat?
300
A consumer that eats prey.
What is a predator?
300
Where do you think the yeast gets its energy from?
The banana
300
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300
Give an example of a niche.
Snakes eat lizards
400
The role of an organism in its habitat?
What is a niche?
400
A group of food chains that overlap.
What is a food web?
400
Name three habitats.
pine forest, rain forest, desert, wetland, ocean
400
Which of these could survive without being part of a food chain- a strawberry plant, a chicken, or a dog? Why?
Strawberry plant because it makes food for itself
400
What would happen if two animals in a food chain ate the same thing?
The animals would compete with each other for food. This would reduce the number of both kinds of animals.
500
Consumers that are eaten by predators? Name two animals and what they are eaten by.
What is prey?
500
A diagram showing how much energy is passed from one organism to the next in a food chain. What is at the bottom of the diagram?
What is an energy pyramid. Producers
500
How does a snake eat prey that is larger than its mouth?
The snakes jaw unhinges.
500
How much energy is used at each level of the energy pyramid and not passed on?
90%
500
How could a predator become prey?
If a smaller predator, such as a snake, was eaten by a bigger predator, such as a hawk, the snake would be both prey and predator.
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