This is the process for how plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis
100
Herbivores eat only this
What is plants
100
This type of organism breaks down dead things
What is decomposer
100
This is a bunch of feeding relationships, or food chains, mixed together to show how species interact in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
The relationship where both organisms are benefited or happy.
What is mutualism?
200
A strawberry plant is considered...
A. Producer
B. Consumer
C. Decomposer
What is A. Producer
200
A bear enjoys eating berries and fish. This makes the bear what type of consumer?
What is omnivore?
200
After a decomposer breaks down dead things, how does it further help the ecosystem?
Returns nutrients to the soil
200
The number of members in a species is called this.
What is population
200
In this relationship one organism is benefited while the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
300
This is the main source of energy for producers while making their own food.
What is the sun
300
In a food web, a hawk is shown eating only rabbits and mice. This makes the hawk what type of consumer?
What is a carnivore?
300
Which of the things below would be classified as a decomposer?
A. Lilly pad
B. Snake
C. Bacteria
D. Frogs
What is C. Bacteria
300
If the number of mice in an ecosystem increased, make an inference as to what happened to the number of owls in the same ecosystem.
The owls decreased.
300
This is the relationship where one organism is benefited and the other is unaware of what is occurring.
What is commensalism?
400
Which of the following is not a producer?
A. Algae
B. Grass
C. Acorns
D. Mushroom
D. Mushroom
400
Classify which of the following is the predator and which is the prey.
Snake is ______________
Mouse is ______________
Snake is the predator
Mouse is the prey
400
An arrow in a food chain is used to show what?
The flow of energy
400
If the grass started to grow really long and tall, what does that tell you could have happened to the deer that eat the grass?
The deer could have left or died
400
A cleaner fish and a shark often live close together. The cleaner fish enjoys its meal off the shark while the shark enjoys the cleaning the fish provides. What type of relationship is this?
What is mutualism?
500
Green plants are important to animals because they do 2 things. What are they?
Make food and Give off oxygen.
500
Explain the main difference between an omnivore and a carnivore.
Omnivores eat both animals and plants while a carnivore will only eat animals.
500
Draw a food chain between the three organisms below.
Grasshopper
Fox
Rabbit
Grasshopper --> Rabbit --> Fox
500
If the rabbit population decreased, what could that tell you about the fox population? (The fox eats the rabbit)
The fox population would have increased.
500
A bird loves building its nest high in a tree so that it has a safe place away from predators. The nest doesn't help or hurt the tree in anyway though. What type of relationship is this?