What is the process by which producers/plants use the energy in sunlight to create their food?
What is photosynthesis?
100
The food chain shows energy is transferred only by the sun?
What is false
The food chain shows energy is transferred through organisms.
100
Which organism is a carnivore?
bacteria
grass
wolf
worm
wolf
100
To move from one place to another in search of food, water, or different temperatures.
What is migration
200
What is an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste?
What is a decomposer
200
I produce oxygen in the environment, what am I?
What are plants and trees.
200
Decomposers contribute to the food chains and food webs by recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem?
What is true
200
Which organism is not a decomposer?
earthworm
fungus
protist
tapeworm
tapeworm
200
a living thing that can function on its own
What is an organism
300
What is a phase of minimal activity (e.g., trees in the winter)
What is dormancy
300
These two things happen in the leaf of a plant
light energy is absorbed and used to make food
300
pesticides are earth friendly
What is false
Pesticides are used to eliminate insects and therefore are toxic.
300
Which two organisms would you expect to compete with each other?
birds and insects
deer and fish
hyenas and cheetahs
raccoons and sea turtles
hyenas and cheetahs
300
What is a unit consisting of living organisms and the environment that they live in
What is a ecosystem
400
What is a representation of the flow of energy from the sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem?
What is food chain?
400
This plant structure carries food from its source to the rest of the plant
What is the stem/roots
400
energy flow in a food web can flow in an up and down direction
What is false
The best direction of energy flow in a food web is to only move up.
400
A spider builds a web in a field. The web catches grasshoppers, which the spider eats. What kind of relationship does the spider have with the grasshopper?
What is a predator-prey relationship
400
When setting up a glass aquarium what should be worn for safety reasons?
goggles and gloves
500
What diagram shows the complex feeding relationships between different food chains in an ecosystem?
What is a food web
500
What percentage of energy is passed from the producers to the next level of consumers in an energy pyramid?
What is 10%
500
A CONSUMER is an organism that eats other organisms for food?
true
500
what is the order in which energy flows in an ecosystem?
sun->producer->herbivore->carnivore->decomposer
500
What is a deep sleep-like state of activity in animals in which the body processes slow down?