Key Words
A living thing that makes its own food, usually using energy from the Sun.
What is a producer?
In a food chain, this kind of living thing must come first.
What is a producer?
Food webs are more ______ than food chains because animals usually eat more than one thing.
What is accurate?
Chemicals used to kill pests on crops.
What are pesticides?
An ecobrick is made by filling a plastic bottle with this kind of waste.
What is plastic waste that cannot be recycled?
A living thing that gets energy by eating plants or animals.
What is a consumer?
In a food chain, arrows show the direction that this moves.
What are food and energy?
In the rainforest food web, name one producer.
What is palm shoot, fig, or jackfruit?
Very small pieces of plastic that can be toxic in food chains.
What are microplastics?
Sea animals sometimes mistake plastic for this.
What is food?
A diagram that shows the order in which living things eat one another.
What is a food chain?
Put these in order: corn plant, mouse, snake.
What is corn plant → mouse → snake?
In the rainforest food web, this animal is an omnivore because it eats plants and animals.
What is the orangutan?
A toxic metal named in the book that can move through food chains.
What is mercury?
Microplastics are plastic pieces smaller than this size.
What is 5 mm?
A group of linked food chains.
What is a food web?
Put these in order: cabbage, snail, duck, fox.
What is cabbage → snail → duck → fox?
In a food web, these animals eat producers only.
What are herbivores?
When harmful substances build up in a food chain, we say they ______.
What is accumulate?
Name one way the ecobrick project helps people besides reducing waste.
What is it can be used to build centers or schools?
The process in which energy moves from one living thing to another in a food chain.
What is energy transfer?
Put these in order: pond weed, tadpole, fish, person.
What is pond weed → tadpole → fish → person?
In the rainforest food web (LB P.100), name one animal that eats the orangutan.
What is the python or tiger?
Predators at the end of a food chain are often harmed the most because harmful substances ______ in their bodies.
What is build up / accumulate?
Give one reason we should reduce plastic waste.
What is it harms animals / pollutes oceans / damages food chains / creates microplastics?