Science Fusion Unit 5

What is the process that plants use to produce food?

• carbon dioxide

• photosynthesis

• chloroplast

• sunlight

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A bush (a producer) uses a molecule called chlorophyll to help meet which need?

• making food

• releasing oxygen

• absorbing soil nutrients

• taking in carbon dioxide

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Which type of organism makes its own food?

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• scavenger

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What does a food web show?

• how predators catch prey

• what food organisms eat

• why organisms find food

• when organisms seek food

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Which kind of diagram shows how much energy passes along as one organism consumes another?

• decomposition

• energy pyramid

• food chain

• food web

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Which of these shows the flow of energy in a food chain?

• decomposers > consumers > plants > producers

• sun > consumers > producers > decomposers

• producers > predators > decomposers > consumers

• sun > producers > consumers > decomposers

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In this food chain, what would be a possible energy source for the bacteria?

• all the animals

• all the organisms

• only the hawk

• only the predators

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In a forest food chain, what is the connection between the sun and a tree?

• The sun helps chlorophyll turn oxygen into carbon dioxide.

• The tree shades animals from the sun and gives them nutrients.

• The sun heats up the ground so the tree's roots can take in water.

• The tree uses the sun's energy to make food through photosynthesis.

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Alex notices a small spot of fungus growing on an orange in the back of his refrigerator. He doesn't eat it, but looks at it again a week later. Which of these is he most likely to observe?

• The fungus has gone away.

• The fungus has not changed.

• The fungus has grown larger.

• The fungus has changed color.

Which of these happens during the time a fallen log is decomposing?

• The fallen log slowly begins to die.

• The fallen log continues to produce food.

• The materials in the log combine into new, complex parts.

• The materials in the log are broken into smaller, simpler parts.

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