Food Chains, Predators, Herbivores & Carnivores
An animal that eats other animals for food.
What is a carnivore?
Trees eat soil. True or false.
What is false?
These are the things that grow on leaves to decompose them on the forest floor. They are white strings.
What are mushrooms roots?
An organism that makes its own food.
What are producers?
The study of properties of matter and how matter changes
What is chemistry?
An animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
A giant Sequoia that weighs 4 million pounds
Leaves disappear from the forest floor because they ___________________ after mushroom roots release a liquid.
What is decompose?
They break down waste and dead material into nutrients for plants.
What are decomposers?
A decomposer, like mushrooms or mold, that reproduce through spores.
What is fungus?
An animal that eats both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
Mushrooms, mold, and fungi.
What are decomposers?
This type of fungus eats dead leaves, insects, and wood.
What are mushrooms?
The loose weathered material on Earth's surface.
What is soil?
Something that changes in an experiment in order to test a hypothesis.
What is variable?
When you go “down” the food chain by continuing to ask “What does it eat?” at what category of living things do you always end up?
What is plants (producers)?
Worms are the ONLY kind of decomposers. True or false.
What is false?
The black material left behind after leaves decompose.
What is soil?
A type of giant redwood tree
What is a Sequoia?
Tiny openings on the underside of a plant that take in air.
What are stomata?
Several food chains are linked to each other.
What is a food web?
The state that most of the giant redwood trees, including General Sherman are located.
Where is California?
True or False- Mushroom spores are constantly floating in the air.
What is true?
In an experiment, the standard that is used for comparison.
What is the control?
A part of fungus that contain offspring.
What are spores?