The process by which plants turn sunlight into food
What is photosynthesis?
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This shows how energy passes from one organism to another as food.
What is a food chain?
100
______ are linked when any one animal belongs to more than one food chain.
What is a food web?
100
A living thing that is too small to be seen with the human eye without the help of a microscope.
What is a microorganism?
100
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
200
A plant requires 3 things to produce its own food. Name them.
What are sunlight, water and carbon dioxide?
200
Plants are producers because ________________.
What is they make their own food?
200
This links together many food chains.
What is a food web?
200
Which microorganism changes its shape to catch food?
What is an amoeba?
200
What is photosynthesis?
What is a process in which plants make their own food?
300
Which gas is produced by plants in photosynthesis? Who needs it to survive?
What is oxygen? Animals and humans breathe oxygen.
300
The main source of energy in most food chains.
What are plants?
300
What shows the energy as it moves through a food web?
What is an energy pyramid?
300
Microorganisms that decompose plants.
What is fungi?
300
What is another name for a primary consumer? Give an example of one.
What is an herbivore? Examples are rabbits, deer, squirrels and grasshoppers.
400
Which has more biomass - a rain forest or a desert? Explain why.
What is biomass is the measure of living things in an enviorment. A rain forest has more living things (animals and plants) per foot than a desert.
400
What are the three components to a simple food chain? Put them in order and give one example of each.
What is producer, consumer and decomposer?
400
What makes up the energy pyramid? State them in order from the bottom upward. Which level is the biggest?
What is producers, consumers (primary - herbivores) and secondary (carnivores and omnivores). The producers are the largest group.
400
Name one microorganism that is a producer and one that is a consumer.
What is Algae (producer) and amoeba (consumer)?
400
Who eats a primary consumer? Give an example.
What is a secondary consumer? Examples may vary.
500
Complete this sentence. Plants take in (name the gas) through tiny holes on the bottom of their leaves called _______________.
What is carbon dioxide and stomata.
500
True or False. An organism can be both a consumer and a decomposer. Explain your answer.
What is True? An earthworm is both a decomposer, breaking down dead plant matter, and a consumer - using that plant matter for its food.
500
How much energy is passed upward in the energy pyramid from one level to the next?
What is 10 percent?
500
Which microorganism is both a consumer and a producer? Explain how.
What is Euglena? In bright sunlight, euglena carries out photosynthesis like a plant. In the dark, where it cannot produce its own food, it acts like an animal.
500
Can a primary consumer eat a secondary consumer? Explain.
What is no. A primary consumer is an herbivore and only eats plants.