Photosynthesis
Food Chains & Food Webs
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Relationships
Miscellaneous
100
What are organisms called that make their own food through photosynthesis?
Producers
100
What do the arrows in a food chain represent?
Energy Flow
100
What are the three types of consumers?
Carnivore, Herbivore, and Omnivore
100
What are the three types of Symbiotic Relationships?
Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism
100
What is the difference between Abiotic and Biotic Factors?
Abiotic are nonliving. Biotic are living.
200
What is the major source of energy for all living things?
Sunlight
200
Give me an example of a Food Chain. Be specific.
Answers will vary
200
Which type of consumers are humans?
Omnivores
200
Give me an example of a predator-prey relationship?
Answers will vary
200
What are primary consumers? Give me an example.
Primary consumers are consumers that eat producers. Ex. Rabbit
300
What do plants eat?
Carbon Dioxide
300
An increase in the rabbit population would directly impact which species?
Fox
300
Ms. Stanton looked out her window and saw leaves on the ground. She looked out the window and saw no leaves months later. What happened to the leaves?
The leaves were decomposed by fungi.
300
Give me an example of a symbiotic relationship found in an ecosystem.
Answers will vary.
300
I am testing to see if the amount of water impacts how quickly a plant can grow. What do I need to make sure I do, so that I am only testing the effects of water on the plant?
Make sure the light, temperature, and soil are the same.
400
What are the "mouths" that take in the carbon dioxide under plant leaves called?
Stomata
400
What would happen to the owl if the grasses disappeared on the food web?
There would be less mice and grasshoppers for the owl to eat because they would only have grains to eat.
400
What do a mouse and a hawk have in common?
They are both consumers.
400
When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?
The population will start to die because there is not enough resources to support it.
400
How can reintroducing a native species to an ecosystem restore it?
By bringing new species and life back into the ecosystem. (Wolf video)
500
Give me the formula of Photosynthesis.
Water + CO2 + Sunlight = Glucose (Sugar) + O2
500
Classify all the living things as consumers, producers, or decomposers.
Producer: Grass
Consumers: Insect, Rabbit, Frog, Vole, Thrush, Hawk, Fox
Decomposer: Slug
500
Who is a secondary consumer? Who is a tertiary consumer?
Answers will vary.
500
What limiting factors cause a polar bear from living in the desert?
Food, Shelter, Water, and Temperature
500
I am doing an experiment to see which type of fertilizer causes a sunflower to grow the tallest. What is my variable and control in the experiment?
Control: Sunflower
Variable: Fertilizer