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You Are What You Eat
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Food Energy
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100
The name of the organism which makes food.
What is a plant?
100
Organisms which make their own food.
What is a producer?
100
Organisms that break down or decompose, wastes and the remains of dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
100
The transfer of food energy from one organism to the next in an ecological community.
What is a food chain?
100
1 square meter of grass + 1 square meter of grass.
What is 2 square meters of grass?
200
The process which a plant uses to create food.
What is photosynthesis
200
Organisms which cannot make their own food.
What are consumers?
200
The organisms which feed on dead plants and animals.
What are scavengers?
200
Herbivores are these.
What are first-level consumers?
200
What happens to the cheetah population as the population of gazelles decreases.
What is "decreases"?
300
The green molecule in a plant's cell.
What is chlorophyll?
300
Animals which eat only producers.
What are herbivores?
300
An animal which does not have any feathers on its head in order to keep clean when they stick their head inside dead animal.
What is a vulture?
300
Overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
300
What happens to the gazelle population as the cheetah populations decreases.
What is "increases"?
400
The gas plants take in during the cycle which helps them make food.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
Meat-eating consumers.
What are carnivores?
400
A type of organism which releases enzymes in order to break down dead matter. A mushroom is an example of one.
What is a fungus?
400
Carnivores and omnivores are these.
What are second-level consumers?
400
The % of energy which is passed on to the next level consumer in the energy pyramid.
What is 10%?
500
The name of the cycle which is the movement of gases back and forth between plants and animals.
What is the Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle?
500
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
500
Another type of decomposer which acts like a fungus in transforming dead matter into something that living organisms need to survive.
What is bacteria?
500
Where this organism falls in the food chain.
What is a decomposer?
500
Amy ate a lunch made up of 3/4 producers and 1/4 consumers.
Jane ate a lunch made up of 2/5 producers and 3/5 consumers.
The fraction of producers they ate all together.
What is 23/20 or 1 3/20?