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A food chain shows how each living thing gets this.

What is energy (or matter is also acceptable)?

100
Animals cannot make their own food, so they eat plants or these?
What are other animals?
100
Bacteria and fungi are examples of these which feed on decaying matter.
What are decomposers?
100

The second level consumer in a food chain that contains these organisms: Snake - Hawk - Mouse - Plant

What is the hawk?

100

True or false?

If the population of one organism in a food web is cut in half, the rest of the food web isn't affected, unless it is a major predator.

What is false?

200

A food chain always ends with an animal, but it always starts with this. 

What is a plant (or producer)?

200
Since animals cannot make food, they can only take from the chain. That is why they are called these.
What are consumers?
200

True or False? Earthworms are one type of decomposer.

What is true?

200

Which organism in this food chain is a producer? Snake - Hawk - Mouse - Green Plant

What is the green plant?

200
People cannot make their own food, so they are called these.
What are consumers?
300
Plants are called these because they are able to use light energy from the Sun to produce food from carbon dioxide and water.
What are producers?
300
Animals that eat only plants are called these.
What are herbivores?
300

Decomposers break down nutrients in the dead organisms and return it to the __________. It's just a fancy word for dirt.

What is soil?

300

True or false? The fish in this food chain gets its energy from the shark. 

Decomposer - Shark - Fish - Phytoplankton

What is false?

300

A ________________ shows how the food chains in an ecosystem are connected.

What is a food web?

400
All of our energy comes from this medium sized star.
What is the Sun?
400
Animals that eat other animals are called these.
What are carnivores?
400

What is a very common example of a microscopic decomposer?

What is bacteria?

400

Which organism in this food chain is not a consumer? Decomposer - Shark - Fish - Phytoplankton

What is phytoplankton?

400

In this chain, Plants - Flies - Frogs - Snakes, these two groups would benefit if the population of flies grew. 

What are frogs and snakes?

500
The process by which plants make food from sunlight is called this.
What is photosynthesis?
500
Animals and people who eat both animals and plants are called these.
What are omnivores?
500

Decomposers speed up the decaying process and release nutrients back into the food chain. The chain starts again, and these things absorb the nutrients from the dirt.

What are plants (or producers)?

500

The omnivore among these. Tiger - Human - Shark

What is a human?

500
Honey Bees eat nectar and pollen from flowers, so they are consumers. Even though they make honey, they still are not considered to be these.
What are producers?