Produce Isle 1
I Eat Dead Things
Where's the Beef?
I'll Have Seconds
Keep Calm and Absorb Good Energy
100
This type of organism makes its own food.
What is a producer?
100
These break down dead plants and animals and return the nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
100
These eat other animals.
What are carnivores?
100
I eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
100
This is what we call the picture below that shows how energy is passed on as one organism consumes another.
What is an energy pyramid?
200
This is the process in which producers make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
Derek notices a small spot of fungus growing on a piece of bread in the loaf. He doesn’t eat the bread. He looks at the loaf of bread again a week later. This is what he most likely observed.
What is the fungus grew larger?
200
These can't make their own food so they eat other organisms.
What are consumers?
200
I'm not a picky eater. I'll eat plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
200
In the following energy pyramid, this organism receives the least amount of energy?
What is the lion?
300
This molecule helps producers make food.
What is chlorophyll?
300
This is what happens during the time an apple is decomposing.
What is the apple will break into smaller pieces and return to soil as nutrients?
300
This is what a food web shows.
What is the food organisms eat?
300
Wally and Izzy were assigned to observe the growth of fungus on a hamburger bun. They sprayed one half of the bun with water and sealed it in a plastic bag. They left the other half of the bun dry and sealed it in a different plastic bag. This bun was the one that the mold grew faster on.
What is the moistened bun?
300
In the following energy pyramid, this organism has to be the most plentiful for this ecosystem to thrive and survive.
What are the tree?
400
In a forest food chain, this is the connection between the sun and a tree.
What is the sun gives the plant energy to make food?
400
This is why fungus is at the end of this food chain below.
What is the fungi break down the dead organisms and return the nutrients to the soil?
400
In the following food chain, this organism would replace the letter X.
What is a decomposer?
400
In the following food chain, deer eat plants, coyotes eat deer, wolves eat coyotes. This is a second-level consumer.
What is the coyote?
400
In all energy pyramids and food chains, this is the original or first source of energy.
What is the sun?
500
These three things plant use in the process of photosynthesis.
What are water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight?
500
During the decomposition process, the wastes of living organisms and the remains of dead organisms are broken down and their nutrients are returned to the soil. These two things are the most important cause of decomposition.
What are fungus and bacteria?
500
In the following food chain, this animal could be classified as consumer and prey.
What is the deer?
500
The picture below shows a food web. If the number of rabbits dropped suddenly, this is what the short-term effect of the snake would be.
What is the snake would decrease in number?
500
In the following energy pyramid, this is the percentage of energy the trees use from the sun and the percentage of energy the trees pass on to the giraffes.
What is 90% used and 10% passed on to the giraffes?