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Categories What is a producer? Give examples. Theme 1 Prompt 100 Points
Categories Theme 1 Response 100 Points Producer is an organism that makes its own food. Examples: plants.
Categories Theme 1 Prompt 200 Points What is a consumer? Give examples.
Categories Consumer is an organism that gets food by eating other organisms. Examples: animals. Theme 1 Response 200 Points
Categories Theme 1 Prompt 300 Points What is scavenger?
Categories Theme 1 Response 300 Points Scavenger is an animal that eats dead organisms.
Categories What is a decomposer? Give examples. Theme 1 Prompt 400 Points
Categories Decomposer- is an organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms. Examples: bacteria and fungi. Theme 1 Response 400 Points
Categories What is herbivore, carnivore and omnivore? Theme 1 Prompt 500 Points
Categories Herbivore- animal that eats only plants Carnivore- animal that eats meat Omnivore- animal that eats both plants and other animals Theme 1 Response 500 Points
Categories What is a food chain? Theme 2 Prompt 100 Points
Categories Theme 2 Response 100 Points Food chain- is a simple way of showing how the energy from food moves through populations of organisms in a community.
Categories Theme 2 Prompt 200 Points What is a food web?
Categories A food web- a complex way of showing how food chains are related. Theme 2 Response 200 Points
Categories Theme 2 Prompt 300 Points What is the role of coyote in this food web?
Categories Theme 2 Response 300 Points Coyote is an omnivore.
Categories How is energy lost? Theme 2 Prompt 400 Points
Categories Energy is lost as heat through activities such as growing, movement, escaping and reproduction. Theme 2 Response 400 Points
Categories Why is there less energy at the end of a food chain? Theme 2 Prompt 500 Points
Categories It’s because every time the energy passes from one organism to another, a part of the energy is lost. Theme 2 Response 500 Points
Categories What is energy pyramid? Theme 3 Prompt 100 Points
Categories Theme 3 Response 100 Points Energy pyramid is a way of showing how energy moves through a food chain.
Categories Theme 3 Prompt 200 Points What is the percentage of energy being transferred to each level in each energy pyramid?
Categories About 10% Theme 3 Response 200 Points
Categories Theme 3 Prompt 300 Points Which level of an energy pyramid has the most energy?
Categories Theme 3 Response 300 Points The producer level has the most energy.
Categories Why do you think most energy pyramids have less than 5 levels? Theme 3 Prompt 400 Points
Categories Loss of energy at each level limits the number of consumer at each level. There is not enough food to support more than 5 levels. Theme 3 Response 400 Points
Categories What happens to the other 90% of energy after the 10% of energy is transferred to the next level? Theme 3 Prompt 500 Points
Categories The other 90% of energy is used to grow, search for food, movement and reproduction. Theme 3 Response 500 Points
Categories What is competition? Theme 4 Prompt 100 Points
Categories Theme 4 Response 100 Points Competition is a struggle among organisms for resources in an ecosystem. The resources are: food, water and shelter.
Categories Theme 4 Prompt 200 Points What is predation?
Categories Predation is a relationship in which an organism (predator) kills and eats another organism (prey). Theme 4 Response 200 Points
Categories Theme 4 Prompt 300 Points What is a predator?
Categories Theme 4 Response 300 Points Predator is an organism (usually bigger, but not always) that kills and eats another organism.
Categories What is a prey? Theme 4 Prompt 400 Points
Categories Prey is an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism (predator). Theme 4 Response 400 Points
Categories What is symbiosis? Theme 4 Prompt 500 Points
Categories Symbiosis is a relationship between different species living in a close association with another one (++). Theme 4 Response 500 Points
Categories What is a symbiotic relationship (general meaning)? Theme 5 Prompt 100 Points
Categories Theme 5 Response 100 Points A symbiotic relationship is a close relationship between two organisms that may help or hurt them.
Categories Theme 5 Prompt 200 Points What is mutualism?
Categories Mutualism is a relationship between two different kinds of organisms that benefit both of them. Theme 5 Response 200 Points
Categories Theme 5 Prompt 300 Points What is commensalism?
Categories Theme 5 Response 300 Points Commensalism is a relationship between two organisms in which one benefits and the other one is harmed.
Categories What is parasitism? Theme 5 Prompt 400 Points
Categories Parasitism is a relationship between two different kinds of organisms in which one lives on or in another organism and harms it. Theme 5 Response 400 Points
Categories What is a host? What is a parasite? Theme 5 Prompt 500 Points
Categories Host- is an organism in which another organism lives in or on and hurting it. Parasite – is an organism that hurts other organisms. Theme 5 Response 500 Points
Categories Put some closing remark here
Categories The Daily Double