Cycling of Matter in Ecosystems

1.    Why isn’t it healthy to just eat candy?

• It rots your teeth, which affects your heatlh.

• High calories, Low Nutrition.

• Low Calories, High Nutrition.

• It isn't. Candy is a great source of nutrition.

True or False: Humans can eat bugs for food?

• True

• False

What is Photosynthesis?

• Sugar breaking down into oxygen.

• Intake of carbon dioxide and emitting oxygen.

• Process a plant uses to make its own food.

• Process of organisms making high energy through their bodies.

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Where does the energy in a hamburger come from originally?

• The sun

• The soil

• The cow

• The calories in the hamburger

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True or False: Flamingos are pink because they eat things that are pink?

• True

• False

What the three main things our bodies use food for?

• Growth, sleep, energy

• Move, repair, growth

• Energy, sleep, move

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How does our body tell us when we need more energy?

• It gets sick

• Hunger

• Thirst

• Fatigue

What size can an ecosystem by?

• Only as large as the largest species.

• Only as small as the smallest species.

• Any size: as small as a water drop to as large as a forest

• You cannot measure an ecosystem.

True or False: Animals eat other animals to get energy and building blocks to help them grow and repair?

• True

• False

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Which is an example of a producer?

• Lettuce

• Mouse

• Human

• Fish

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