Producers and Photosynthesis
What do you call a plant that makes its own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
Producer
Consumers must get their food from which source: other organisms, sunlight, or rocks?
Other organisms
Food webs begin with energy supplied by which of these: consumers, the Moon, the Sun, or decomposers?
The Sun
Which fossil suggests an area was once a forest environment: fish skeleton, fern leaf imprint, shell, or coral fragment?
Fern leaf imprint
Name of an organism that makes its own food by absorbing the Suns light.
Producer
What is another word for "plants and animals" (HINT: O______)
What do we call animals that eat plants?
Herbivore
Which sequence shows a correct flow of energy in a grassland food web:
(A) sunlight → grasses → deer → mice
(B) snakes → mice → grasses → sunlight
(C) sunlight → shrubs → deer → mountain lions
(D) snakes → hawks → mountain lions → sunlight
(C) sunlight → shrubs → deer → mountain lions
The oldest and youngest fossils are located where?
Oldest fossils = bottom layer
Youngest fossils = top layer
Name of an organism that has to eat other organisms to get its energy.
Consumer
Name the MAIN thing a producer needs to make food.
Producers need SUNLIGHT
Which choice correctly describes how consumers get food:
(A) make their own food
(B) get food from other organisms
(C) do not need food
(D) use sunlight and carbon dioxide?
(B) get food from other organisms
In a food chain and food web there is something that shows the flow of energy. It also shows who eats who.
The arrows.
A rock layer contains many plant fossils such as ferns. Which past environment does this most likely indicate:
A. desert
B. pond
C. ocean
D. forest
Forest
Name of organisms that breaks down dead organisms.
Decomposer
Which of the following is NOT needed for a producer to make its own food: Plants, Sunlight, Animals, Candy?
Plants, Animals, Candy
In a food web, energy that flows from a deer goes next to which pair:
(A) Finch & Chipmunk
(B) Mountain Lion & Wolf
(C) Grasshopper & Finch
(D) Grass & Tree
(B) Mountain Lion & Wolf
What role do decomposers play in an ecosystem?
They break down dead plants and animals.
What type of environment would a shell fish fossil live in if it was still living? Why?
Ocean/water, because shells and fish swim in water.
Which organism is describing a producer? Select all that apply.
A. Algae - plant living things found in water
B. Shrimp - eats algae, worms, and micro bacteria
C. Phytoplankton - microscopic plant that makes its own food.
D. Zooplankton - eats algae and other aquatic plants.
A. Algae
C. Phytoplankton
What is the name of the process in which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make sugar and release oxygen?
Photosynthesis
In one sentence, explain how energy moves starting with the SUN.
Energy STARTS when a PRODUCER is eaten by a CONSUMER and eventually broken down by a DECOMPOSER?
What are the 3 types of consumers? (what they eat)
Herbivore, Carnivore and Omnivore
Which question can scientists most likely answer from studying a dinosaur fossil:
A. How many eggs the dinosaur had;
B. How it behaved around other animals;
C. What color its skin was;
D. What type of food it ate?
D. What type of food it ate?
What is an organism?