Lesson 1
True or False:
There are fewer hours of daylight in the winter.
True
Some organisms break down dead things for food. What are these organisms called?
Decomposers
When you eat lettuce, some energy passes from the lettuce to you. This relationship is called what?
Food Chain
What do plants release as a part of photosynthesis?
People are part of the food chain. What is the role of people in the food chain?
People are consumers.
Up
Food also gives living things energy. What is energy?
The ability to do work and cause changes by an electric current.
What consumer eats grasses and other plants?
Herbivore
List one way plants can be helpful to the environment.
They are food for many animals
They release oxygen
They are shelter for other animals
Plant roots help keep the soil in place
Sunlight+CO2+water yields food or sugar+oxygen=?
Is what happens during photosynthesis.
A rest period for plants.
Dormancy
What do producers do?
They make their own food.
What does a carnivore and an omnivore have in common?
They both eat other animals.
Some grow too fast and become pests
Conservation
Give an example of an animal which does this activity.
Hibernation
Ground squirrel
What are the three things plants use during photosynthesis?
Water, carbon dioxide, and energy from the sunlight
They hunt other animals.
What is the role that animals play in our environment?
They are food
The maple tree begins to bud and the buds turn into leave during which season?
Spring
Manatees move as a group from region to another. This is called...
Migration
True or False: A living thing that eats another living thing is called a decomposer
True or False:
Food webs and food chains are the same thing.
False
Any substance in the environment that can harm living things is called what?
Pollution
Which state grows food during the winter?
California