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Producers
Consumers
Producers, Consumers, Or Decomposers
Food Chain
Food Web
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
The word that means "all the members of a single type of organism" in an environment.
Population
200
What is the name of the substance that makes plants green and also allows them to photosynthesize?
Chlorophyll
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
What happens to most of the energy a grasshopper consumes when it eats grass?  

a) It gets passed up the food chain.

b) It gets used by the grasshopper.

c) It is returned directly to the grass.

b) It gets used by the grasshopper.


(The grasshopper uses most of the energy to do the things grasshoppers do. Only a little bit is passed up the food chain.)

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 a rattlesnake both want to eat a mouse, this is an example of what?
Competition
400
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
400
How do consumers get their energy?
By eating other organisms
400
Which would be an example of a primary consumer? A fox, a plant, or a caterpillar?
Caterpillar
400
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
400
A food web shows how a group of _____________ are linked together.
food chains
500
What two things does a plant produce in the process of photosynthesis?
Sugar and Oxygen
500
What does a secondary consumer eat?
A secondary consumer will eats plant-eaters (a.k.a primary consumers).
500
At each level of an energy pyramid, what happens to most (about 90%) of the energy?
About 90% of the energy is used up by the organisms.  Only 10% gets passed up to the next level.
500
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
500
In a food web, what direction do the arrows point?
In the direction the energy travels (towards the organism that is using the energy)