Plant Systems
What are plants role in a food web?
Producers
Which is a consumer: sun, elephant, or grass
elephant
Which is a nonliving part of an ecosystem?
Fish snail water lilypad
water
What is the process that plants use to produce food?
photosynthesis
Which organism would be at the bottom of a food energy pyramid?
Bee robin snake flower
flower
What do plants need in order to survive?
Light and water
Which is considered prey?
bird, beetle, leaf, or sun
beetle
What kind of vessels are in leaf veins?
xylem and phloem
A girl made a model of a food chain. The living things in a food chain were a cricket, a frog, a snake, and a hawk. Which is missing from the food chain?
producer
How much energy is transferred from the producers to the primary consumers?
100%
What are the components must be present for plants to make their own food?
carbon dioxide oxygen water
Nitrogen Light sugar
carbon dioxide water light
What is a niche?
the role an organism plays in its ecosystem
Plants produce food in their ________________.
leaves
Photosynthesis is important for life on Earth. Which of the living thing can perform photosynthesis?
Fly Dog flowers frog
flowers
Which kind of diagram shows how much energy passes along as one organism consumes another?
decomposition energy pyramid food chain food web
What role does a mushroom have in an ecosystem?
decomposer
What do arrows represent in a food web?
Energy being transferred
Which the phrases that correctly describe invasive species:
1. Invasive and native species compete for the same resources.
2. Invasive and native species have the same natural predators.
1. Invasive and native species compete for the same resources.
All living things need certain things to live and grow. Circle the things do all living things need to survive:
Blood energy sunlight carbon dioxide
energy
What is the most important source of energy for all organisms?
sun
Which of the following items that are a product of photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide water oxygen
nitrogen sugar light
water sugar oxygen
A bee collects nectar from a flower. The nectar is taken to the beehive, where it is made into honey. The honey is used as food for the entire beehive. Where does the energy of the honey originally come from?
sun
What does a food web show?
What food organisms eat
Why organisms find food
How predators catch prey
Which organisms seek food
1. What food they eat
What is an invasive species?
An organism that moves into an ecosystem and causes negative changes to the organisms that live there.
How does matter move between leaves and mushrooms?
The mushroom breaks down the leaves and use the nutrients from the leaves to grow.