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Nature of Science
100
A food chain shows how each living thing gets this.
What is food?
100
Animals cannot make their own food, so they eat plants or these?
What are other animals?
100
Bacteria and fungi are examples of these which feed on decaying matter.
What are decomposers?
100
The first link in the chain among these animals.
Snake - Hawk - Mouse
What is the mouse?
100
Plants make food, so they are called these.
What are producers?
100
You use your five senses to make these.
Observations
200
A food chain always ends with an animal, but it always starts with this. You know, like lettuce, trees or flowers.
What is a plant?
200
Since animals cannot make food, they can only take from the chain. That is why they are called these.
What are consumers?
200
Since decomposers are at the end of the food chain, they are called this.
What is the "last link".
200
The last link in the chain among these animals.
Snake - Hawk - Mouse
What is the hawk?
200
People cannot make their own food, so they are called these.
What are consumers?
200
You use your observations to make an ______ about nature.
inference/ infer
300
Plants are called these because they are able to use light energy from the Sun to produce food from carbon dioxide and water.
What are producers?
300
Animals that eat only plants are called these.
What are herbivores?
300
Decomposers break down nutrients in the dead "stuff" and return it to this. It's just a fancy word for dirt.
What is soil?
300
The first link in the chain among these participants.
Decomposer - Shark - Phytoplankton
What is phytoplankton?
300
People eat both plants and animals, so they are called these?
What are omnivores?
300
When soemthing is too small or large, scientists use these to understand nature better.
models
400
All of our energy comes from this medium sized star.
What is the Sun?
400
Animals that eat other animals are called these.
What are carnivores?
400
Decomposers eat lots of these in the fall. Even if people rake them away, the decomposers will still get them. They must like the pretty colors.
What are leaves?
400
The last link in the chain among these participants.
Decomposer - Shark - Phytoplankton
What is a decomposer?
400
In this chain, Flies - Frogs - Snakes, this group would benefit if the population of flies grew. Well actually, two of these groups would benefit.
What are frogs and snakes?
400
Why do scientists keep notes in a journal about their experiments?
SO, that others may come and repeat the experiment and get the same results.
500
The process by which plants make food from sunlight is called this.
What is photosynthesis?
500
Animals and people who eat both animals and plants are called these.
What are omnivores?
500
Decomposers speed up the decaying process and release minerals back into the food chain. The chain starts again and these things absorb the nutrients from the dirt.
What are plants?
500
The omnivore among these.
Tiger - Man/Woman - Shark
What is a man/woman?
500
Honey Bees eat nectar and pollen from flowers, so they are consumers. Even though they make honey, they still are not considered to be these.
What are producers?
500
Which of the following is an inference?
A. The alligator is hunting.
B. The alligator has pointy teeth.
C. The alligator is standing in water.
D. The alligator has scales.
it is hunting