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Checkpoint 13 Review Sheet
1. What do humans do that makes plants grow? We breathe OUT carbon dioxide (CO2) that plants need!
2. Put the following in order of energy flow: consumer, decomposer, producer
Producer
consumer
decomposer
3. How do decomposers help plants? They return nutrients back to the soil
4. How does the overpopulation of a plant effect an ecosystem? It decreases the number of other plants
5. How do some animals depend on others for survival? Food, transportation, protection
6. What is prey? Organism that is being HUNTED and eaten for food
7. What is a producer? An organism that makes its own food using sunlight
8. What is a decomposer? It breaks down dead organisms and brings nutrients back to the soil
9. What is a consumer? An organism that consumes or EATS other organisms for food
10. What could happen if you wiped out an entire species of animal in an area? The animals that eat it would decrease
11. What type of organism can make its own food? Producer
12. What lives in a terrarium? Snails, frogs, plants, snakes, lizards
13. What lives in an aquarium? Fish, aquatic (water) plants
14. What usually comes after the sun in a food chain? A producer, such as grass or algae
15. What happens if producers are removed? All the animals would die or move away
16. What do plants have to have to grow?
17. What does “
Sunlight
“ stand for? Give energy to
18. What is W.A.R.S.S. stand for? Water, Air, Rocks, Sunlight, Soil
19. What does W.A.R.S.S. represent? Abiotic (nonliving) things
20. What is the definition of ecosystem? Living and nonliving things interacting in the environment
21. Draw a food web with the following: grass, hawk, mouse, snake Grass
mouse
snake
hawk