Science Checkpoint

Plants get their food by --

• making it from sunlight

• eating animals or insects

• absorbing it from soil

• taking nutrients from the air

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Food webs begin with energy supplied by –

• green planys

• the Earth's core

• the sun

• the moon

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In order to make their own food, plants need sunlight, water, and which gas from the atmosphere?

• argon

• nitrous oxide

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

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The diagram illustrates a gulf food web. The herring gull depends directly on all of the following organisms for food EXCEPT–

• blue crab

• grass shrimp

• diamond back terrapin

• sheepshead minnow

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The flow of energy in a prairie food web is shown in the diagram. If a highway were built through the middle of the prairie that destroyed most of the grass, what might be the effect on other organisms?

• Snakes would be forced to eat more mice.

• Deer would move elsewhere to find food.

• Mountain lions would hunt more squirrels.

• Robins would eat a different food than squirrels.

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Four organisms are illustrated here. Which organism can make its own food?

• Rabbit

• Daisy

• Mushroom

• Earthworm

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An elephant gets the energy it needs to survive when it –

• Drinks water from streams

• Warms itself in the sun

• Eats grass and leaves

• Sleeps on the ground

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A food web is illustrated here. If all of the squirrels were removed from this food web, which animal population will most likely decrease first?

• Coyotes

• Hawks

• Mountain Lion

• Antelopes

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In this food chain, the large fish gets its energy by---

• absorbing sunlight

• eating plants

• preying on small fish

• being eaten by the hawk

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Select the producer.

• sunflower

• worm

• grasshopper

• rollie pollie

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