Energy and Food
This is where producers get the energy to make their own food.
What is sunlight?
An organism that eats another organism.
What is a consumer?
A community of organisms and their physical environment that interact.
What is an ecosystem?
This human activity involves cutting down large areas of trees.
What is deforestation?
This is the process plants use to make glucose using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
An organism that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
This model shows how organisms depend on each other as a source of food in a straight line.
What is a food chain?
This human activity includes building cities and roads.
What is urbanization?
This process happens when food is converted into usable energy.
What is metabolism?
An organism that eats animals.
What is a carnivore?
This model shows how multiple food chains are connected.
What is a food web?
This natural event can include strong winds and heavy rain that damage ecosystems.
What is a hurricane?
This is one thing animals use food for.
What is growth? (also accept: body repair, motion, warmth)
These organisms break down dead organic material.
What are decomposers?
Name one example of this type of system: desert, forest, or tundra.
What is an ecosystem?
This natural event happens when there is little to no rainfall for a long time.
What is a drought?
This type of molecule includes glucose, fructose, and sucrose.
What is a carbohydrate?
This type of consumer eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
True or False: Plants cannot grow without soil.
What is false?
Name one natural event that can disrupt an ecosystem.
What is a flood? (also accept: fire, tornado, earthquake, etc.)