Organisms in Ecosystems
When animals breathe in, they take in ___________, and when animals breathe out, they give off ________.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Animals that cannot make their own food...
What are consumers?
Which animals would be at the top of this food chain?
mouse snake red-tailed hawk salamander
red-tailed hawk
Carnivores and omnivores that hunt and eat other animals are called...
What are predators?
Name a student in the Fifth Grade at Peebles who shows horses in competitions.
Makenna Purvis
What byproduct is given off by plants as a result of the process of making sugars for their food?
What is oxygen?
Give an example of an apex predator.
Hawk, mountain lion, shark, man, etc.
When plants or animals die, some organisms in the environment eat them for food. What are these organisms called?
scavengers
Name three possible food sources for a rattlesnake.
mice, small lizards, salamander, bird, squirrel, chipmunk, baby chicks, etc.
Name a student in Fifth Grade at Peebles who also has a parent who teaches at Peebles.
Bo Johnson, Braylen Stephens, Steven Zinser, Calen Vogler
What is the green molecule found in plants that aids in the changing of water and carbon dioxide into sugars and oxygen?
What is chlorophyll?
Organism that can make their own food...
What are producers?
What do we call meat-eating consumers?
carnivores
The animals that are hinted by other animals are called...
What are prey?
Name a Fifth Grade student who has a sibling who is a Sixth Grader at Peebles.
Liam Shoemaker
The process by which plants and plantlike organisms make food...
What is photosynthesis?
An example of a tiny plantlike organism living in oceans and other bodies of water. These organisms can make their own food.
What is phytoplankton?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals are called...give an example of one of these types of consumers.
omnivores...human beings, box turtles, etc.
An organism that breaks down the wastes and remains of other dead organisms into nutrients that return to soil, air, and water are called...
What are decomposers?
Name the student in Fifth Grade who moved here from the state of Arizona.
Lucas Schmus
What do we call the back and forth movement of gases between plants and animals?
carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle
Mice and rabbits eat only plants. Hawks eat mice and rabbits. What could happen if there were no more plants?
The mice, rabbits, and hawks would all die. The food chain is broken.
Organisms that eat only plants are referred to as....
herbivores
What can happen when an animal that eats other animals moves out of an area?
With fewer predators to eat them, prey animals have a chance to increase in numbers again.
What town does Mr. Schmitz live in?
Lynx, Ohio Adams County