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What fraction of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen gas?
8/10
Producers make their own food. True or False?
True
What is a producer?
an organism, usually a plant, that makes its own food.
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Oxygen
Trees and grass would be listed as.....
producers
What is an energy pyramid?
a diagram that shows the amounts of energy that flows through each level of a food chain.
List 3 decomposers that break down materials in nature.
fungi
bacteria
banana slugs
slime molds
millipedes
ants
Lions , rabbits and owls are listed as..........
consumers
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What is a consumer?
an organism that eats other organisms
Most animals get their food and energy by 2 things.....
By either eating plants or eating other animals that eat plants.
What is an ecosystem?
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is a habitat?
Where an organism lives.
Producers use ___________ and release___________.
carbon dioxide
oxygen
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What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
Web- all the food chains in a particular place
Chain- transfer of energy through a series of organisms that use each other as food.
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What are herbivores? carnivores? omnivores?
H-an animal that eats only plants or their products.
C-An animal that eats only other animals
O-An organism that eats both plants and animals
List 3 nonliving parts of an ecosystem
water
air
soil
temperature
sunlight
How would you describe a food chain to someone who hasn't thought about that idea before?
A food chain is the idea that every living thing is linked to other living things by what it eats and what it is eaten by.
When you go down the food chain by continuing to ask "What does it eat?" at what category of living things do you always end up?
You always end up at plants.
Fill in the blanks.....
___________ take in carbon dioxide, but __________
and _____________ release carbon dioxide.
Plants
decomposers and consumers
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How long has Stony Point been open?
What do decomposers do?
They break down waste and dead material into nutrients for plants.