What am I?
I am an insect that only eats plants. This makes me a/an ____________.
What is an herbivore?
Multiple connected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A type of sugar that is produced by plants through photosynthesis and used as a source of energy.
What is glucose?
The materials that a plant needs to produce its own food.
What is water, CO2 (carbon dioxide), and sunlight?
Lakes, deserts, forests are examples of ____________.
What are ecosystems?
I absorb sunlight, CO2, and water and make my own food. I am a _______________.
What is a producer?
The energy that starts ALL food chains?
What is sunlight?
A process by which producers use sunlight, water, carbon dioxide to create energy in the form of glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
A biproduct of photosynthesis that is beneficial to humans.
What is oxygen?
Mushrooms are an example of a ___________.
What is a decomposer?
A small fish eats from the algae plant in the ocean. He is a ____________ consumer.
What is a primary consumer?
What do we call a living thing that cannot make its own food?
What is a consumer?
A type of organism that helps return matter back into the earth.
What is a decomposer?
True or False: A plant must have soil in order to grow.
False
When a carnivore eats all that it needs, what is left and who will eat it?
Who is a scavenger? Answers may include: bones, organs, skin, fur.
A coyote can change what he eats if a prey animal or plant are in short supply. This makes him a/an ___________.
What is an omnivore?
In a food chain, what do the arrows indicate?
What is the flow of energy?
A series of organisms listed in a way that shows which is a food source for another.
What is a food chain?
An ecosystem consists of all of the ______ and _______ things that interact in a given area.
What are living and nonliving things?
The three steps used when writing an analysis of scientific commentary.
What is Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER)?
A badger, ate a bird, that ate a grasshopper, that ate from a shrub. This makes the badger the ___________ consumer.
What is the tertiary consumer?
Draw (and label) a food web for the following living things: snake, fly, eagle, flower, grasshopper, fox, mouse
Answers will vary (should include at least 1 producer, primary, secondary and a tertiary consumer).
Organisms respond to this in their environment, such as changes in temperature or light.
What is stimuli?
The process by which water is absorbed by plants roots and then released into the atmosphere through tiny pores in the leaves.
What is transpiration?
Movement, respiration, sensitivity to the environment, growth, reproduction, excretion, and nutrition are examples of _____ _______ _______ _______ _______.
What is what makes living things alive?