Plants
Animals
Energy Transfer
Vocabulary
Potpourri!
100

Where do plants get their energy?

The sun

100

This is a consumer

An organism that eats producers or other consumers.

100

What is a food web?

A diagram showing the energy transfer between consumers, producers and decomposers

100

An organism that breaks down the (dead) remains of plants and animals.

Decomposer

100

The hardest substance in the human body.

Tooth enamel!

200

What 3 things does a plant need to go through photosynthesis?

water, carbon dioxide, sunlight

200

How do animals get their energy?

By eating plants or other animals

200

Give an example of a food chain. 

example:

sunlight>algae>shrimp>frog>fish

200

Matter

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

200

This is the exact direction ALL things fall on earth.

Towards the center of the Earth.

300

Which two things do plants produce through photosynthesis?

A. oxygen B. carbon dioxide  C. chlorophyll   D. sugars

A. Oxygen

D. Sugars

300

Name the consumer that ONLY eats plants.

Herbivore

300

What do the arrows in a food chain/web show?

The arrows show the transfer of energy through the food chain/web.

300

This atom is vital to all living things on our planet. It might also kill all of us.

Carbon

300

This marsupial has a fingerprint very similar to a humans

A koala bear

400

What is the function of the roots of a plant?

1. Take in water and nutrients.

2. Anchor the plant to the ground.

400

Name the consumer that ONLY eats meat.

Carnivore

400

The ability to move or change matter

Energy

400

The cycle of a very important molecule through all living things

The Carbon Cycle

400

If you cut a pizza into 8 pieces, each piece with have this degree measure.

45 degrees

500

Which plant part is mainly responsible for capturing sunlight and carrying out photosynthesis.

Leaves

500

If a rabbit is a primary consumer, what is the wolf that eats the rabbit called?

Secondary Consumer

500

What is the function of decomposers?

Decomposers break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil.

500

An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy.

Producer

500

In the original Donkey Kong game, this is the name of the lady who you need to rescue.

Lady. Yup, just lady.