4NW Science Major #1 Review

Producers/Consumer

100

An organism that gets its energy from consuming dead wastes and materials?

What is a decomposer?

200

What is the name of the process that uses water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to create food and oxygen?

What is the process of photosynthesis?

300

An organism that eats both plants and meats

What is an omnivore?

Rotation/Revolution

100

Responsible for shadows on Earth

What is the Earth's rotation?

200

2 things that are responsible for Earth's seasons

What is the Earth's revolution and its tilted axis?

300

Name the 4 main moon phases in order.

New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Last Quarter

Food Chain/Food Web

100

What is the role of the producers in a food web?

to provide food (energy) for the consumers

200

How is a food web and a food chain different?

A food chain is one scenario, food web is many overlapping food chains

300

Name something that could happen that would negatively affect a food web.

What is a forest fire, drought, extinction, etc.