Plants
Which item below do plants NOT need to survive?
- Air
- Water
- Soil
- Sun/Nutrients
What is soil
True or False:
An animal can perform photosynthesis to receive energy.
What is false
Where does all energy originally come from?
What is the sun
Using the word consumer, what is a prey?
What is... a consumer that gets eaten by another consumer
True or False:
The sun is a source of energy.
What is true
Why do plants need air to grow?
What is... plants need carbon dioxide in order to produce oxygen and sugar during the process of photosynthesis.
What is a consumer? List 2 examples
Examples may include animals/people/etc.
How would you say the different roles in food chains are connected?
What is the connection flows through the transfer of energy from organism (or sun) to organism.
What is... a consumer that eats another consumer.
What role does each have? (producer/consumer)
Seaweed --> Small Fish --> Large Fish
What is a producer? List 3 examples
What is... an organism that is able to produce its own food through the process of photosynthesis.
Examples include plants/trees/shrubs/ etc.
True or False:
Some consumers eat producers.
What is true, plenty of consumers (like bunnies) eat producers (like grass).
Is the sun a producer, consumer, both, or neither?
What is neither
Give a scenario of a predator and prey.
Answers vary: (connection of two consumers in which one eats the other)
How does each organism get its energy?
Seaweed --> Small Fish --> Large Fish
What is... the seaweed gets its energy from the sun, the small fish gets its energy from the seaweed, and the large fish gets its energy from the small fish
During photosynthesis, carbon dioxide enters a plant, while water vapor and ________ exit?
What is oxygen
Name 4 different animals in 4 different environments
(Ocean: starfish, Forrest: squirrel, Desert: lizard, Tundra: polar bear)
If a wolf competes with a python for rats, how would the arrows point?
What is one arrow pointing from the rat to the python and another arrow pointing from the rat to the wolf
(Answers drawn on board)
What does an herbivore eat?
A. meat
B. plants
C. meat and plants
What is... plants
Over time, what would happen to a population if a competitor population moves into its environment?
What is the population size would decrease
What is photosynthesis?
____ + ____ + ____ --> ____ + ____
What is the process in which an organism produces its own food.
sun + carbon dioxide + water --> sugar + oxygen
Name an animal that is both a predator and a prey
What is... limited answers vary
(Spiders, snakes, etc.)
What do the arrows indicate in a food chain?
What is... the arrows display the transfer of energy from organism (or sun) to organism.
A dragonfly is a predator... what is its prey?
What is other small insects: flies, bees, ants, and wasps
What might happen if an organism was removed from an environment?
What is... other organisms in the environment may die/struggle to survive if connected to the impacted food chain.