Mean, Green, Plant Machine!
PHOTObomb!
Gotta Eat!
Move Those Chains (and Webs)!
Get your ECO on!
It Goes 'Round' and 'Round'
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How do plants get their energy?
Through a process called Photosynthesis.
100
What is the pigment that captures the energy of sunlight?
chlorophyll
100
True / False
Animals depend on energy from the sun for their food?
True
100
What is the original source of energy for organisms in a food chain?
sunlight
100
What is an ecosystem?
All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area
100
What are two different types of decomposer?
Fungi & Bacteria
200
How do plants and animals get their energy differently? (*Must explain both correctly!*)
Plants are able to make their own food and energy. Animals must eat other living things for energy.
200
Which plant part is mainly responsible for capturing sunlight and carrying out photosynthesis?
the leaves
200
This model best demonstrates what cycle?
The oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle
200
What is a food chain?
A path showing energy flowing from one living thing to another
200
Name some physical characteristics of an environment.
Oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, weather, soil
200
In what way doesw matter move in an ecosystem?
Matter moves in cycles
300
What are the three main things plants need to grow?
sunlight,
air / carbon dioxide
water
300
What role do roots play in making food for a plant?
Roots take in water.
300
Animals need food for many reasons. Name at least 2 things that food provides for animals?
1. to grow
2. to move
3. to keep warm
4. to repair
*Other answers may be acceptable, Judge choice*
300
What do decomposers do?
Break down dead organisms or the wastes of living things
300
What does this picture of spider monkeys represent in an ecosystem?
A population
300
How do animals get the nitrogen they need?
They eat plants or other animals that eat plants.
400
You are growing plants in a water that includes nutrients (no soil). What is the name of this method of growing plants?
Hydroponics
400
Which is the product of photosynthesis that plants use?
water carbon dioxide oxygen
chlorophyll sugar sunlight
sugar
400
Your friend says that animals do not depend on energy from the sun to make their food. Do you agree? Why or why not?
I would disagree because animals either eat plants or other animals that eat plants.
(all food was once energy from the sun)
400
What does a food web show?
The different paths or food chains that energy follows as it moves through an environment
400
Which or the following does NOT describe a healthy ecosystem?
A. All species meet their needs
B. A stable physical environment
C. Includes invasive species
D. Includes many species of different types.
c. Includes invasive species
400
How do plants and animals interact in the carbon-dioxide oxygen cycle?
Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, while animals breathe in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide.
500
Growing plants using hydroponics is done to help with several problems that growing using traditional farming methods face. What is one of those problems that hydroponics can help solve?
Answers may vary.
*Judge decision*
500
Plants use the products made during photosynthesis to carry out their basic functions. Where does the energy to make these products come from?
Sunlight
500
What are 3 physical characteristics of an environment?
Temperature, oxygen, soil, water, weather, climate
Additional answers could vary, Judge's decision.
500
What would happen to this food web is the mouse population decreased?
The entire food web would be affected
500
1. What is an invasive species?
2. Give 2 examples of US invasive species we learned in class.
An organism that does not belong in a certain place and harms the environment
Kudzu and red imported fire ants
500
Describe the nitrogen cycle, starting with soil.
Plants take in nitrogen from the soil. Animals take in nitrogen from the air or plants. When plants and animals dies, decomposers release the nitrogen to the soil and air.