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Vocabulary
Vocabulary II
Food Chains and More
Wild Card
Wild Card II
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An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
100

A living thing that must eat plants and/or animals to survive.

What is a consumer?

100

The sun provides it's energy to this type of organism, sometimes the first link in a food chain.

What is a producer? (Plant is an acceptable answer).

100

Why are decomposers important organisms in a food chain? 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

Even if not listed, this is ALWAYS the start of a food chain.

What is the sun?

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

This is the type of organism a fungus is. 

What is a decomposer?

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

Consider the food chain: grass=> grasshopper=> frog=> snake. This is the primary consumer.

What is the grasshopper?

300

This is the type of consumer that humans are.

What is omnivore?

400
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400

The first link in a food chain to eat something else. 

What is a primary consumer?

400
Consider this food chain: acorns=> squirrels=> hawks Which of these is the producer?
What are the acorns?
400

Consider the food chain: phytoplankton=> minnow=> trout=> bear. This is the secondary consumer.

What is trout?

400

This is the type of consumer that a spider is.

What is a carnivore?

500
A diagram that shows the flow of energy from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
500

The second link in a food chain that eats something else.

What is a secondary consumer?

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

This is how the food chain starts again after the decomposer does its' job.  A) because the decomposer spreads the seeds B) because the decomposer must constantly stay busy to stay alive C) because the decomposer breaks the dead or decaying organism down and the nutrients go back into the soil, causing any seeds that have been dispersed a good environment to reproduce D) because the decomposer does not totally break the organism down and some of the organism is still alive

What is C, because the decomposer breaks the dead or decaying organism down and the nutrients go back into the soil, causing any seed that have been dispersed a good environment to reproduce?