Food Webs
Food Chains
Biogeochemical Cycles
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100
What do the arrows in food webs represent?
What is the flow of energy.
100
All food chains (and food webs) begin with what?
What is producers
100
This cycle does not include the atmosphere, and begins with the weathering (breaking apart) of rocks.
What is the phosphorus cycle.
100
Autotroph, Heterotroph, or Both?
Plants
What is an Autotroph
100
What do you call an animal that eats both plants and meat?
What is omnivore
200
What is the role of decomposers?
What is they break down dead organisms.
200
Which of the following is NOT a consumer?
Fish, Grass, Dog, Shark
What is grass
200
In the water cycle, the process of plants losing water through their leaves is called
What is transpiration.
200
Organisms that cannot make their own food and necessarily obtain energy from external sources are called.
What is an autotroph
200
This process allows plants to utilize the sun, carbon dioxide, and water to produce their own food (glucose).
What is photosynthesis
300
In a food web, where do plants get their energy from?
What is the sun
300
An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________
What is a consumer
300
In the carbon cycle, how do animals obtain carbon from the environment?
What is by eating plants.
300
A group of the same species of organisms that are able to breed
What is a population
300
During this cycle, nitrification occurs when ammonia is converted into nitrate by bacteria found in the soil.
What is the nitrogen cycle.
400
What organisms does the hawk consume in the following food web.
What is rabbit, snake, mouse
400
In a food chain herbivores are
(a) Primary producers
(b) Primary consumers
(c) Secondary consumers
What is primary consumers
400
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, and runoff are all apart of which cycle?
What is the water cycle.
400
Nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia are all compounds found in this cycle.
What is the nitrogen cycle
400
How do plants obtain phosphorus in the phosphorus cycle?
What is through the soil
500
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
What is:
A food chain shows a single pathway
A food web shows multiple pathways between many different organisms.
500
Place the following the organisms properly into a food chain.
Hawk, Grass, Blue Jay, Grasshopper
What is Grass-> Grasshopper-> Blue Jay->Hawk
500
In the nitrogen cycle, how is nitrogen transferred between animals and the soil.
(Hint: it includes decomposers)
Dead animals and waste are broken down by decomposers.
500
Autotroph or Heterotroph or Both
Bacteria
What is both an autotroph and a heterotroph
500
In this cycle, the burning of fossil fuels can lead to the production of greenhouse gases which can have a negative impact on the environment and cause global warming.
What is the carbon cycle.