The Mulberry Tree and the Silkworm

What process allows producers to make energy storage molecules?

• Cellular respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Digestion

• Decomposition

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What do mulberry trees produce that silkworms need?

• Oxygen

• Water

• Energy storage molecules

• Protein

What do producers use extra energy storage molecules for?

• Keeping warm

• Building stems, leaves, and roots

• Producing seeds only

• Making flowers

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Where do silkworms get their energy?

• From the sun

• From the air

• By eating tree bark

• By eating mulberry leaves

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Why is it important that mulberry trees make more energy storage molecules than they use?

• So they can grow taller

• So silkworms and other organisms have energy to use

• To stop photosynthesis

• To save energy for the winter

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Producers only do photosynthesis, not cellular respiration.

• True

• False

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Silkworms get energy by eating leaves made from energy storage molecules.

• True

• False

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Mulberry trees release more carbon than they take in.

• True

• False

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Mulberry trees perform ______________ to make energy storage molecules.

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Silkworms get energy by eating leaves from ________ trees.