Food Chains, Predators, Herbivores & Carnivores
Plant Needs: Air & Water
Decomposers, Nutrients, & Matter Cycle
Ecosystems & Matter Cycle
Food Webs & Flow of Energy
100

An animal that eats other animals for food.

What is a carnivore?

100

Trees eat soil. True or false.

What is false?

100

A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animal materials.

What is a decomposer?

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.

What are producers?

100

Use these words to correctly show the flow of energy through a food web. 

consumers     decomposers     producers

What is producers → consumers → decomposers? 

200

An animal that eats only plants.

What is an herbivore?

200

Tiny openings on the underside of  leaves where it sucks in air that it needs for its food.

What are stomata?

200

A substance needed by an organism for health and growth.

What are nutrients?

200

They break down waste and dead material into nutrients for plants.

What are decomposers?

200

Mr. Stultz

Who is a fungi?

300

An animal that eats both plants and other animals.

What is an omnivore?

300

Mushrooms, mold, and fungi.

What are decomposers?

300

A way to describe which animal eats other organisms in an ecosystem.

What is a food chain?

300

____________ take in carbon dioxide, but ____________ release carbon dioxide.

What are plants……………...………………………………. decomposers and consumers?

300

These are in the air, and everywhere, and cause mold

What are spores?

400

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?

What is plants (producers)?

400

Worms are the ONLY kind of decomposers. True or false.

What is false?
400

A model that shows how food chains connect and overlap.

What is a food web?

400

You have to clean a fish tank but not a pond because...

What is a fish tank doesn’t have decomposers or plants like a pond does? 

400

This is the name of a large and unwanted algae growth in water

What is an algae bloom?

500

Several food chains are linked to each other.

What is a food web?

500

Name the biggest tree.

What is the sequoia named General Sherman?

500

A community of living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions.

What is an ecosystem?

500

An ____________ includes all living things (producers, consumers, decomposers) in an area, and their nonliving environment.

What is an ecosystem?

500

This is at the bottom of a pond and contains dead fish, dead plants, and decomposers

What is pond muck?