Energy Makes It All Go

Energy Makes It All Go

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Multiple Choice

All living things are called __________ .

• energy

• organisms

• survive

Multiple Choice

To do anything, like move, make something, or blooming, all living things need ______

• energy

• organisms

• survive

Multiple Choice

You can feed a plant with store bought plant food.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Plants don’t have to eat, because they make their own food.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Plants don’t have mouths for eating, but they do have tiny openings in their leaves that take in gases from the air. One of the gases in air is called _______ ________, and plants use molecules of ________ ______ as one of the ingredients for making their food.

• oxygen

• nitrate

• air

• carbon dioxide

Multiple Choice

The other ingredient plants use for making their food is ________ molecules, which plants take in through their roots.

• soil

• sunlight

• water

• nutrients

Multiple Choice

One reason why plants are so important in an ecosystem is they bring ______ into the ecosystem. All animals need to eat food to survive, but animals can’t make their own food—they depend on plants to do it for them. Only plants (and a few other plant-like organisms, such as algae) can make __________ that stores energy from sunlight.

• water

• molecules

• food matter

• food nutrients

Multiple Choice

Which one of these is NOT an herbivore?

• rabbit

• leaf eating insects

• green iguana

• ladybug

• manatee

Multiple Choice

Which one of these is NOT a carnivore?

• a wolf

• a spider

• sperm whale

• elephant

• lady bug

Multiple Choice

Which animal is NOT a omnivores?

• bear

• banana slug

• fox

• crab

• sea turtle

Multiple Choice

A mushroom gets energy by breaking down dead organisms and droppings. Ecologists call organisms that do this _________. They use dead things as food matter.

• Herbivores

• decomposers

• carnivores

• omnivores

Poll

Many ecologists group worms with decomposers. Worms eat fallen leaves, dead organisms, and droppings that they find in the soil, but tiny bacteria living in the worms’ guts are the ones actually breaking down the worms’ food into nutrients. Do you think worms are decomposers?

Do you think worms are decomposers? (This is a poll.)

• yes

• no

Poll

This vulture is a scavenger that doesn’t kill other animals, but eats the meat of animals that have already died. Some ecologists group scavengers with decomposers, while some group them with carnivores or omnivores. Where do you think scavengers should be grouped?

• Carnivores because they eat meat even if it is all ready dead.

• Decomposers because gets energy by breaking down dead organism.

• Both because they do a little of each.

• herbivores

Multiple Select

Which two statements from the book supports the idea that the Venus fly trap is a plant and not a carnivore?

• The flies die inside them so they eat them.

• People sometimes call the Venus flytrap a “carnivorous” plant.

• Carnivores get their energy from meat, but Venus flytraps don’t get any energy from the meat of the flies they trap.

• Venus flytraps make their own food out of water and carbon dioxide gas from the air, using energy from the sun.

Multiple Choice

Living things may be carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, decomposers, or plants, but the source of their energy is almost always the same—the ____!

• moon!

• waves!

• food

• sun!