T6 Science

What is the process plants use to produce food?

• carbon dioxide

• photosynthesis

• chloroplast

• sunlight

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What need does chlorophyll help to meet?

• 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 their 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 pyramind

• food chain

• food web

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

• decomposer>consumer>plants>producer

• sun>consumers>producers>decomposers

• producers>predators>decomposers>consumers

• sun>producers>consumers>decomposers

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 black spot growing on an orange in the back of his refrigerator. He doesn't eat the orange. He looks at the orange a week later. Which of these is he most likely to observe?

• The fungus is gone.

• 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 down into smaller, simpler parts.

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Why are bacteria shown at the end of a food chain?

• They are producers, and make their own food.

• They are consumers, and feed off of dead organisms.

• They are decomposers, and break down dead organisms.

• They are consumers, and the smallest organisms on the food chain.

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