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Very Necessary Vocabulary
Food Frenzy
Producers and Consumers
Thinking Caps Required
100
A diagram that shows how much energy is passed from one living thing to another along a food chain is called?
What is an energy pyramid
100
A movement of food energy through a series of organisms can best be described as__________
What is a food chain
100
What is the name for consumers that are eaten?
What is prey.
100
Compare a carnivore and a predator. How are they the same? How are they different?
Carnivores and predators both eat other animals. A predator might also eat plants, making it an omnivore
200
An environment that meets the needs of living things.
What is a habitat
200
How could a predator become prey?
a small predator can be eaten by a larger predator. For example, a snake was eaten by a hawk would make the snake both prey and predator
200
Which type of organism is at the start of every food chain?
What is a producer
200
Mr. Cinelli saw a mushroom growing on the stump of a dead tree. What can Mr. Cinelli INFER about the role of the mushroom?
The mushroom is a decomposer, feeding on the tree stump and breaking it down
300
A consumer that eats prey is called
What is a predator
300
Why are acorns not classified as prey?
Only animals can be prey.
300
The list below illustrates a variety of living things. Which are consumers? Which are producers? moss lion redwood tree deer horse
The producers are moss, redwood tree, and deer. The consumers are lion, and horse.
300
Compare the diet of a carnivore and the diet of an herbivore.
A carnivore feeds on other animals. Herbivores are animals that feed on plants
400
The role of an organism in its habitat is called a
What is a niche
400
A pond contains many different living things such as fish, frogs, stork, insects and algae. Create a food chain using the information above.
The stork eats the fish, the frog eats the insects, the insects eat the algae.
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Name 3 kinds of consumers
What is carnivore, herbivore, omnivore
400
Antelopes are herbivores. What other term describes them? A. omnivore B. prey C. predator D. producer
What is B. Prey
500
A living thing that can not make its own food and must eat other living things is called a
What is a consumer
500
If a food chain contains grass a prairie dog and a hawk, Which consumer is an herbivore? Which is a carnivore? Explain.
The prairie dog is an herbivore, it eats grass. The hawk is a carnivore, it eats the prairie dog, but not the grass.
500
Provide an example for each: Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore
Carnivore= wolf, lion, tiger, Herbivore= cow Omnivore= Bear, River Hog,
500
Which of these could survive without being a part of a food chain- a cherry plant, a turkey, or a cat? Explain
What is a cherry plant. It makes food for itself.