Year 8 Banksias and Beyond

Example of a consumer

• worm
• bacteria
• mushroom
• hawk

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Example of a decomposer

• fungus
• mouse
• plants
• frogs

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A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment
• population

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An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

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Where do all life forms get their energy?

• Earth's Core
• Water
• Plants
• The Sun

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

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An energy pyramid represents what?

• How much sunlight is available for the ecosystem to use. 
• How much energy a particular organism needs. 
• How much energy is needed to build a pyramid. 
• The amount of energy available to the next 'feeder' in a food web.

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In this food chain, what will happen if the frogs become extinct?

• The snakes will increase.
• The grasshoppers will decrease.
• The eagles will remain the same.
• The grasshoppers will increase.

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Abiotic means

• living

• nonliving

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