Food
What is an animal that eats other animals for food?
carnivore?
True or false:Trees eat soil.
false
What is a living thing that breaks down dead plants and animal materials.
decomposer
What uses carbon dioxide and release oxygen, include plants, algae, and phytoplankton. They also make their own food, rather than eating other living things.
producers
Use these words to correctly show the flow of energy through a food web.
consumers decomposers producers
producers → consumers → decomposers
What is an animal that eats only plants?
herbivore
What are tiny openings on the underside of leaves where it sucks in air that it needs for its food?
stomata
To what group do mushrooms, mold, and fungi belong?
decomposers
What kind of organisms break down waste and dead material into nutrients for plants.
decomposers
Omnivores, small animals, plants, and decomposers were most likely to survive what disastrous event?
The asteroid that hit the earth causing the Cretaceous extinction
What is an animal that eats both plants and other animals?
omnivore
Which kinds of organisms take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide?
decomposers and consumers
To create a food chain you can ask "What does it eat?" and what other question?
What kind of organisms take in carbon dioxide?
plants
Scientists have reason to think that NOT ALL of the dinosaurs died in the Cretaceous extinction. True or false.
What is true?
When you go “down” the food chain by continuing to ask “What does it eat?” at what category of living things do you always end up?
plants (producers)
True or false? Worms are the ONLY kind of decomposers.
false
Give an example of a fungus that is useful to humans.
fungi are used to make yogurt, cheese, bread, antibiotics, among others
What two types of organisms does a pond have that a fish tank does not have?
decomposers and plants
Choose the statement that most accurately describes why the dinosaurs died.
a. The dinosaurs died from earthquakes set off by the asteroid impact.
b. The dinosaurs burned up instantly from a giant fireball caused by the asteroid.
c. Most dinosaurs starved due to the collapse of their food webs.
d. Most dinosaurs suffocated because they couldn’t breathe air full of asteroid dust.
e. The dinosaurs froze to death when the sun was blocked out.
c. Most dinosaurs starved due to the collapse of their food webs
What are several food chains linked to each other?
a food web
Name the largest tree.
General Sherman
What is a community of living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions.
ecosystem
What do scientists call an area which includes all living things (producers, consumers, decomposers)and their nonliving environment.
An ecosystem
Name two pieces of evidence that support the claim that an asteroid impact caused the dinosaurs to go extinct.
Scientists found a layer of asteroid dust in rocks all around the world, above that layer, there are no dinosaurs.
A large crater was discovered in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico which could have been the site where a large asteroid hit the Earth and caused the dinosaur extinction.