Food chains
What is the correct order of a food chain: Hawk, Snake, Grass, Mouse?
Grass, Mouse, Snake, Hawk
What is the primary source of energy for almost all food webs?
The sun
What are the three things a plant needs in order to live
Carbon dioxide, Sunlight, Water
What is a consumer
An organism that cannot make its own food
What is a decomposer
An organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material
Create a food chain involving a shark, a small fish, algae, and a larger fish.
Algae, small fish, large fish, shark
What are the three consumers?
Carnivore, Omnivore, Herbivore
What does photosynthesis make
Tell me the equation
Sunlight + water + CO2 = Oxygen + sugar
What is a producer
An organism that uses energy from the sun to make its own food
What is a herbivore? What is an omnivore? What is a carnivore?
Herbivore: Only eats plants
Omnivore: Eats both plants and animals
Carnivore: Only eats meat
Create a food chain including Bird, snail, Grass, Cat
Grass, Snail, Bird, Cat
What is the cycle of matter?
It moves from plants to consumers, then to decomposers, and back into the environment.
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What happens if I took the sun away?
The plants will not be able to grow
What is Carbon dioxide?
The air we breathe out.
What do the arrows in a food chain diagram represent?
The flow of energy
Create a food chain including Grass, polar bear, arctic fox, rabbit
Grass, Rabbit, Arctic fox, Polar Bear
How are food webs different from food chains?
Food webs show multiple interconnected food chains
Which plant would grow better?
Plant A: Placed in sunlight and watered daily
Plant B: Watered daily but kept in the dark
Why?
Plant A because it receives energy needed to make food
What is a predator?
An animal that hunts other animals for food
What is a prey?
Animals that are eaten by other animals
Can an animal be both a predator and prey? Give an example
Yes, a frog eating an insect, then being eaten by a snake
In the food chain Grass --> Rabbit --> Fox, what would happen to the grass if all the foxes were removed?
If all foxes were removed from the grass-rabbit-fox food chain, the grass population would decrease. Without predators (foxes), the rabbit population would rise significantly, leading to increased grazing and the eventual depletion of the grass
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What is the green pigment in leaves that absorb sunlight?
Chlorophyll
What is oxygen?
The air we breathe in
What is photosynthesis
the special process that green plants use to make their own food.