Food chains
if a grasshopper eats grass to get its energy, what is the grass called? (hint: THE GRASS GIVES THE GRASSHOPPER ENERGY!)
a producer
An animal that is hunted as food.
prey
What is it called when rock, sand, or soil is broken down over time and carried away by water?
Erosion
what is the length of a wave called?
wavelength
a gas released by leaves that is needed for animals and people to breathe
oxygen
An animal that hunts other animals for food
predator
An animal that eats both plants and animals
omnivore
The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
weathering
What is the height of the wave called?
Amplitude
Any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time
renewable energy
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
consumer
An organism that feeds on dead animals and plants
decomposer
Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations (picked up and DROPPED off)
Deposition
The bending of a wave as it passes at an angle from one medium to another (we see it through LIGHT bending!)
Refraction
Thinnest layer of the earth
The crust
What is an apex predator?
is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own
what type of consumer eats PLANTS only?
herbivore
What is physical weathering?
the process where rocks break down or change shape and texture due to external forces without altering their chemical composition
Lowest point of a wave
Trough
stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object
potential energy
What do the arrows in a food chain or food web represent?
the direction of energy flow from one organism to another...NOT what eats what
Describe a food web starting with the producer (u can make up all of the organisms)
answers may vary
what is chemical weathering?
the breakdown of rocks and minerals through chemical reactions, changing their composition
what kind of waves are transmitted when we talk on the phone?
radio waves
three things needed for photosynthesis
sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water