Food Webs

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Which organism is the MOST LIKELY food source for the deer? Options: mountain lion, plant, hawk, squirrel

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plant

Front

A student wants to grow a sunflower plant. He knows it is a producer and can make its own food. The plant needs all of the following in order to make its own food EXCEPT:

• carbon-dioxide
• insects
• water
• sunlight

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insects

Front

Which of the following is NOT needed for a producer to make its own food? Options: Oxygen, Carbon dioxide, Water, Sunlight

Back

Oxygen

Front

How would the egrets in this area MOST LIKELY respond if all of the herons were removed from the area?

Back

They would have an increase in population.

Front

What do producers need to make their own food?

Back

Sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water

Front

Sandra plants a vegetable garden in her backyard. She plants yellow squash and red peppers. Unfortunately, slugs begin eating the vegetables while squash bugs begin drinking the sap from the squash vines. The slugs and the squash bugs are both:

• plants
• consumers
• decomposers
• producers

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consumers

Front

Look at the food web of a pond ecosystem.

Which food chain shows the correct flow of energy in the pond 

of the food web?

Back

Front

Which of the following statements describes how consumers get food?

• Consumers are able to make their own food.
• Consumers must get food from other organisms.
• Consumers make food or get food from other organisms.
• Consumers use sunlight and carbon dioxide for food.

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Consumers must get food from other organisms.

Front

The grassland ecosystem is experiencing a drought where very little rain has fallen for many years. 

How would the organisms in the grassland ecosystem be affected by the drought?

Options: There would be fewer shrubs and there would be more deer, There would be fewer numbers of each type of organism, There would be more numbers of each type of organisms, There would be fewer hawks and there would be more mice

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There would be fewer numbers of each type of organism.

Front

What prevents the small trees in the forest from growing larger?

Back

Less sunlight reaches the smaller trees.