Vocabulary
Metamorphosis
Plant Life cycle
Food Webs
Types of Consumers
100
An interconnected set of food chains
Food web
100
What are the two forms of metamorphosis
Incomplete and Complete Metamorphosis
100
The process where plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and release oxygen
Photosynthesis
100
An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy
A Producer
100
An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals
Consumer
200
The particular way a living thing grows reproduces, and dies
Life Cycle
200
The life cycle of a darkling beetle is shown here. Which stage represents the change from larva to adult? A, B, C, or D?
D
200
One way in which a plant life cycle is like an animal life cycle is that both plants and animals –
A) use seeds to reproduce
B) live for hundreds of years
C) lay eggs that hatch
D) grow larger over time
D) grow larger over time
200
A prairie food web is illustrated here. If all of the squirrels were removed from this food web, which animal population will most likely decrease first?
Hawks
200
An organism that gets energy by eating only other animals
Carnivore
300
All living and nonliving things and all their interactions in an area
Ecosystem
300
What is a nymph?
The nymph is a smaller version of the adult, but it does not have wings.
300
This diagram illustrates the life cycle of a tomato plant. Which stage in this plant life cycle is the adult? A, B, C, or D
C
300
Four organisms are illustrated here. Which organism can make its own food? 
Daisy
300
An organism that gets energy by eating only plants
Herbivore
400
What is a sprout or seedling?
Offspring of the adult plant
400
Which of the following organisms goes through metamorphosis, including the stages of egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
A)Grasshoppers
B) Crickets
C) Beetles
Beetles
400
The lima bean plant that can produce the most offspring is the plant that produces the most -
A) Leaves
B) Stems
C) Seeds
D) Roots
Seeds
400
A pond food chain is illustrated here. In this food chain, the large fish gets its energy by 
C) preying on small fish
400
An organism that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals
Omnivore
500
Growth, improvement, or innovation
Development
500
How is the life cycle of a beetle similar to the life cycle of a frog? Both life cycles–
begin with eggs.
500
Plants have flowers so they can reproduce. Therefore, when a plant has flowers, we know that the plant -
has reached the adult stage
500
A pond food web is illustrated here. If a pesticide killed all the insect larvae in this food web, all of the following would immediately result EXCEPT –
A) bass would have more minnows to eat
B) snails would have more algae available
C) sunfish would be forced to eat more snails
D) minnows would lose a source of energy
bass would have more minnows to eat
500
An elephant gets the energy it needs to survive when it –
Eats grass and leaves