Friday 4/5 - ER PB 1 Review - Food Chain

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17 questions
Vocabulary Review

ER Unit Review: Food Chain

Objective: KWBAT explain how food moves through an ecosystem.
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Herbivores eat ________________

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Carnivores eat ________________

1

Omnivores eat ________________

1

Decomposers eat ________________

Food Chain / Food Web and Energy
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There is a snake, grass, and mouse in an ecosystem.

Describe how each organism in this ecosystem must get its energy (1 point each):

Snake - How does the snake get energy? _______

Mouse - How do the mouse get energy? _______

Grass - How does the grass get energy? _______
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Write a food chain with the organisms snake, grass, and mouse to correctly show the energy relationships (3 points).

Criteria For Success:
  • organisms are in the correct order
  • arrows correctly show the flow of energy
  • all three organisms are included in the food chain

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When the snake eats the mouse, what 2 things does the snake use the food molecules for?

1. _______
2. _______
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The snake does not eat grass.

Explain how the molecules from the grass can become the body molecules of the snake.

Criteria For Success:
  1. Describe the food chain.
  2. Explain how the food molecules move in the food chain.

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A grasshopper was introduced into the ecosystem. The grasshopper is an herbivore. What will happen to the size of the snake population, increase, decrease, or stay the same. Explain why.

The snake population will _______ because ______

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Fill out the boxes to create a food chain from the food web above:
cactus → ________________ → ___________ → _________
Other Answer Choices:
grasshopper
hawk
lizard
Use the food web model and the vocabulary words below to answer the following questions:


Producer - any organism that makes its own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
Consumer - any organism that eats other organisms for food
Herbivore - animal that eats plants, algae, or plankton
Carnivore - animal that eats other animals
Omnivore - animal that eats both plants and animals
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What organism is the PRODUCER in this food web?

2

The salamander gets energy from which 2 organisms?

1

The eagle is a(n) ______________

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The dragonfly is a(n) __________

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The trout is a(n) ______________

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Where do the food molecules that the salamander eats *originally* come from?

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When the salamander eats food, what 2 things does the salamander use the food molecules for?
1. _______
2. _______