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Vocabulary
Vocabulary, TWO!
Food Chains and More
Wild Card
Friend or Foe?
100
An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
100
An animal that eats plants or other animals.
What is a consumer?
100
A model that shows how much energy flows through a food web.
What is a food pyramid?
100
Why are decomposers important organisms in a food web? A) They produce oxygen. B) They prey on carnivores. C) They are food for producers D) They return nutrients to the soil
What is they return nutrients to the soil?
100

What is kudzu?

An invasive species

200
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
200
An organism that breaks down dead or decaying plant or animal material.
What is a decomposer?
200
Consider this food chain: grass=> grasshopper=> mouse => snake Which organism is an herbivore?
What is the grasshopper?
200
Consider the food chain: grass=> grasshopper=> frog=> snake What would happen in the ecosystem if the grasshopper population died? A) snakes would eat the grasshopper B) it would be fine, frogs prefer other insects anyway C) it would be fine, the grass population would increase D) the frog population would die from the decrease in their food supply
What is D, the frog population would die from the decrease in their food supply?
200

True or False: Invasive species can be both harmful and beneficial to the environment. 

What is True

300
An organism that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
300
A network of food chains that have some links in common.
What is a food web?
300
Consider this food chain: blackberries=> bird=> cat Which organism is the carnivore?
What is the cat?
300
Which is true regarding an energy pyramid? A) carnivores occupy a larger level than herbivores B) herbivores occupy a smaller level than producers C) consumers occupy the level below producers D) producers and carnivores occupy the same level
What is B, herbivores occupy a smaller level than producers?
300

This invasive species recently made its home in Georgia just over a few months ago as it lays its eggs and weaves its webs in our forests. 

What are Joro Spiders?

400
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
The struggle between organisms for the same resource.
What is competition?
400
Consider this food chain: acorns=> squirrels=> hawks Which of these is the producer?
What are the acorns?
400
Which of the following organism is a secondary consumer in the food chain? A) hawk B) gorilla C) squirrel D) earthworm
What is a hawk?
400

Invasive Species are native to an area. True or False. 

What is false?

500
A diagram that shows the flow of energy from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
500
Non-native plant or animal species that have been introduced into an environment.
What is an exotic species?
500
In a Mississippi swamp, alligators and great blue herons eat fish. Which type of organism is the great blue heron? A) decomposer B) carnivore C) herbivore D) producer
What is a carnivore?
500
A certain type of bear mainly eats trout. If the trout population declines, what will most likely happen to the bear population? A) it will decrease B) it will increase C) it will remain the same D) it will increase and then decrease
What is it will decrease?
500

Invasive species grow slowly due to an abundance of predators. True or False. 

What is false.