food chain/web
plants
decomposers
vocabulary
grab bag
100

What is at the bottom of a food chain?

producer

100

How do plants get their food?

They make their own food.

100

What did we find out slows down the production of mold?

salt

100

Huge cone bearing trees that can grow up to 300 feet or more are called ______ trees.

Sequoia Trees

100

Are worms harmful or helpful? How do you know?

Worms are helpful. They burrow to help plants, add nutrients to the soil, and help to break down organisms.

200

What happens when you have organsims that are eaten or eat more than one other organism?

You have a food web

200

What kind of air do plants use? How do they get this air?

Carbon dioxide through the stomata

200

Seeds of fungi that are in the air that produce more fungi are called what?

spores

200

Microscopic marine algae that float in the upper part of the ocean are called _______.

Phytoplankton

200

Where do the leaves go each year when they fall off the trees?

They get decomposed and broken down.

300

What are the food chain questions you  when trying to put together a food chain?

What does it eat? or What eats it?

300

An organism that eats only plants is called a what?

herbivore

300

Mushrooms, mold, and mildew are in the _______ group.

fungi

300

The study of matter that takes up space and reacts to changes in the environment is called ________

chemistry

300

Does air weigh anything?

yes.  Air has weight.   We did the balloon experiment with a scale and it showed the scale going down.

400

What is an example of a producer?

A plant

400

What kind of food do plants make?

Sugar

400

A worm's waste product that makes the soil richer are called what?

castings

400

One celled organisms that can be both helpful and harmful are _______.

Bacteria

400

Fossilized waste of dinosaurs is a=called ________.

Coprolites

500

What is at the top of a food chain?

An animal that can isn't eaten by anything else

500

How do plant roots differ from mushroom roots?

Plant roots get water and hold the plant in place.  Mushroom roots decompose

500

An organism that breaks down dead or decaying material is called what?

decomposers

500

Most living and nonliving things contain carbon.  That's why on earth they say there is a carbon _______.

Carbon Cycle

500

How do the characteristics of worms make them well suited to living underground?

They are long and slender, they like darkness abd dampness.