Producers
Consumers
Producers, Consumers, Or Decomposers
Food Chain
Food Web
Science and Engineering Practices
100
Where do plants get their energy from?
The Sun
100
What do you call an organism that only eats plants?
Herbivore
100
People are part of food chains. What is the role of a person in a food chain?
Consumer
100
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
The passing of energy from one organism to another
100
Put these in order Lion hyena sun zebra grass
Sun -> Grass -> Zebra -> Hyena -> Lion
100
Which lunch do 5th graders prefer? Make a claim.
Fifth graders prefer chicken sandwiches.
200
What do producers do to get food?
Photosynthesis
200
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?
An omnivore
200
Amy is planting tomatoes and carrots in her garden. She notices that small insects like to eat her tomatoes and carrots just like she does. Amy and the small insects are both examples of what?
Consumers
200
In the food chain Sun → Grass → Grasshopper → Bird which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away.
Grasshopper
200
Where does all the energy in an ecosystem orgiginate from?
The Sun
200
What is the least favorite lunch prefered by 5th graders?
Fifth grader's least favorite lunch is pizza.
300
Name 3 things that a producer needs to make its own food
Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, and Water
300
When consumers breathe out what type of gas do they produce?
Carbon Dioxide
300
What would a mushroom would be classified as?
Decomposer
300
In the food chain Sun → Grass → Zebra → Lion, what would likely happen to the lion if the zebra population decreased?
The lion population would likely decrease.
300
If a coyote and rattle snake both eat mice, but the rattle snake also eats frogs, what would happen to the coyote and rattle snake if all mice were to die.
Coyotes would lose their source of food. The snakes population would likely decrease as well.
300
Provide two pieces of evidence that support the following claim. Fifth graders prefer chicken sandwiches for lunch.
Fifth graders
400 students chose chicken sandwiches.
250 students chose turkey sandwiches.
400
What do producers release that helps consumers breathe
Oxygen
400
Daily Double
x2
400
Where does the fox get its energy from?
The rabbits and mice.
400
In the food chain Tree → Deer →Mountain Lion what would be the result if the tree population decreased due to a forest fire?
The deer and mountain lion populations would decrease
400
In a food web, what direction do the arrows point?
In the direction the energy travels (towards the organism that is using the energy)
400
How many students were interviewed about their lunch preferences?
900
500
Juan wants to grow a sunflower. He makes sure that the plant has the following items in order to grow; sunlight, water, other organisms, and air. Which of these items does the plant NOT need in order to grow?
Other organisms
500
How do consumers get their energy?
By eating other organisms
500
Which would be an example of a primary consumer? A fox, a plant, or a caterpillar?
Caterpillar
500
In the food chain Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl what would likely happen to the mice population if the snake population decrease?
The mice population would likely increase
500
A food web shows how a group of _____________ are linked together.
food chains
500
Provide two pieces of evidence that support the claim: Pizza is the least favorite meal option.
100 students ordered pizza.
50 fewer students ordered pizza than the next least preferred lunch, hamburgers, with 150 students ordering it.