Quizzy 1 - Becoming a Scientist

Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem
• Food flowing through an ecosystem
• Consumers going into other consumers
• Who eats who

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

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What is the best hypothesis for this experiment?

• It will get hot

• If the container of pebbles is shaken, the temperature will increase.

• Shaking makes it hot

What would be the best choice for a hypothesis?

• If the temperature is increased, then the sugar will dissolve faster.

• Put sugar in the hot tea and iced tea

• The sugar will probably dissolve

What is the energy source for this food chain?

• The grain

• The grasshopper

• The sun

• The owl

Which statement best describes the relationship between the deer and the plants?

• The deer supplies food and oxygen to the green plants

• The deer supplies food and carbon dioxide to the green plants

• The green plants supply food and carbon dioxide to the deer

• The green plants supply food and oxygen to the deer

Scientific questions have to be...

• Measurable 
• Easy
• Interesting

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Choose the best-written hypothesis that answers the question:
Question: Why is my room warmer during the day than at night?

• Sunlight is making my room warmer.
• Mr. Rivas has the heat turned on in the morning.
• If I close my blinds during the day, then my room will be cooler because sunlight cant get in.
• Sunlight actually cools down a room.

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The owl receives energy from which organisms?

• grasshopper and mouse
• mouse and rabbit
• rabbit and butterfly
• butterfly and frog

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The krill is eaten by which consumer?

• blue whale
• phytoplankton
• leopard seal
• penguin

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