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Food Chain, Food Webs,Etc...
Consumers, Producers, and Decomposers
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100
Consists of all living and non-living things.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Produces food through photosynthesis
What is a producer?
100
Name where food gets its energy.
What is the sun?
100
Name a producer in the ecosystem.
Sample Answer: What are green plants? The teacher may accept other answers.
100
Fish use these to breathe in water.
What are gills?
200
A living person, plant, or animal
What is an organism?
200
Cannot make their own food
What is a consumer?
200
Sequence scavengers, producers, and decomposers in a food chain. *Start at the top of the chain and move down
What is producers, scavengers, and then decomposers?
200
Give at least three examples of consumers.
What is an Owl, Fox, Rabbit, Bear, etc..
200
Name something that adds oxygen to the aquarium.
What are green plants?
300
Breaks down dead or decaying organisms.
What is a decomposer?
300
An organism that consumes only meat
What is a carnivore?
300
List what is needed to make a plant germinate.
What is water, light, and soil?
300
Give examples of decomposers.
What are maggots, mold, fungus, mushrooms, bacteria, etc...
300
Describe the ways snails act as the "clean up crew" in the aquatic model.
Snails will eat the dead plants and animals.
400
Define a herbivore.
What is a living thing that only consumes plant materials?
400
Define Omnivore
What is a living thing that consumes both plant materials and meat?
400
Name body structures that crickets and isopods have in common
What are antennae and legs.
400
Organisms that must eat other plants or animals for energy.
What are consumers?
400
Name what turns plants green and helps them to perform photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
500
Describe the difference between a food web and food chain.
A food web shows a complex arrangement of overlapping food chains, and a food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. (answers may vary)
500
Define Habitat
What is everything an animal does or need in its environment?
500
Describe what would happen to the rabbit population if the black bear was taken out of food web. Then describe what would happen to berries.
The population of rabbits would increase and the amount of berries would decrease.
500
Describe the importance of decomposers for some plants
Decomposers may provide nutrients for plants.
500
Describe why you plant grass and seeds before adding animals to a terrarium.
The growing plants are food for the animals.
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