It's the Food Chain
An animal that eats other animals for food.
Carnivore
Trees eat soil. True or false.
False
A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animal materials.
Decomposer
BONUS 100
They use 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 nonliving thing is in a food chain?
The Sun
Fungi are the only type of decomposers. True or False.
False
Name one type of fungi that can be found in our homes.
Mold
If there is too much of this type of gas in an ecosystem the living animals may not survive.
Carbon Dioxide
BONUS 200
These organisms were most likely to survive the Cretaceous extinction.
Omnivores, the small animals, the plants, and the decomposers
An animal that eats both plants and other animals.
Omnivore
Billy says says air is heavy. Do you agree that air has weight?
Yes. Air has weight.
BONUS 100
A way to describe which animal eats other organisms in an ecosystem.
Food chain
____________ take in carbon dioxide, but ____________ release carbon dioxide.
Plants; Consumers & decomposers
Scientists have reason to think that NOT ALL of the dinosaurs died in the Cretaceous extinction. True or false.
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)
Tiny openings on the underside of leaves where it sucks in air that it needs for its food.
Stomata
A complex model that shows how food chains connect and overlap.
Food web
BONUS 100
You have to clean a fish tank but not a pond because...
A fish tank doesn’t have decomposers or plants like a pond does.
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.
Dinosaurs starved due to the collapse of their food webs
Which type of organism are there usually the fewest of in an ecosystem?
Carnivores
BONUS 100
Name the biggest tree.
General Sherman
What do you call the microscopic fungi that travel in the air?
Spores
An ____________ includes all living things (producers, consumers, decomposers) in an area, and their nonliving environment.
Ecosystem
Name one prehistoric consumer species from our food web that did not survive the extinction.
Multiple correct answers.