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3. 500 400 300 200 100 Theme 5 12.5 Theme 4 12.4 Theme 3 12.3 Theme 2 12.2 Theme 1 12.1

4. Categories What is a producer? Give examples. Theme 1 Prompt 100 Points

5. Categories Theme 1 Response 100 Points Producer is an organism that makes its own food. Examples: plants.

6. Categories Theme 1 Prompt 200 Points What is a consumer? Give examples.

7. Categories Consumer is an organism that gets food by eating other organisms. Examples: animals. Theme 1 Response 200 Points

8. Categories Theme 1 Prompt 300 Points What is scavenger?

9. Categories Theme 1 Response 300 Points Scavenger is an animal that eats dead organisms.

10. Categories What is a decomposer? Give examples. Theme 1 Prompt 400 Points

11. Categories Decomposer- is an organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms. Examples: bacteria and fungi. Theme 1 Response 400 Points

12. Categories What is herbivore, carnivore and omnivore? Theme 1 Prompt 500 Points

13. 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

14. Categories What is a food chain? Theme 2 Prompt 100 Points

15. 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.

16. Categories Theme 2 Prompt 200 Points What is a food web?

17. Categories A food web- a complex way of showing how food chains are related. Theme 2 Response 200 Points

18. Categories Theme 2 Prompt 300 Points What is the role of coyote in this food web?

19. Categories Theme 2 Response 300 Points Coyote is an omnivore.

20. Categories How is energy lost? Theme 2 Prompt 400 Points

21. Categories Energy is lost as heat through activities such as growing, movement, escaping and reproduction. Theme 2 Response 400 Points

22. Categories Why is there less energy at the end of a food chain? Theme 2 Prompt 500 Points

23. 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

24. Categories What is energy pyramid? Theme 3 Prompt 100 Points

25. Categories Theme 3 Response 100 Points Energy pyramid is a way of showing how energy moves through a food chain.

26. Categories Theme 3 Prompt 200 Points What is the percentage of energy being transferred to each level in each energy pyramid?

27. Categories About 10% Theme 3 Response 200 Points

28. Categories Theme 3 Prompt 300 Points Which level of an energy pyramid has the most energy?

29. Categories Theme 3 Response 300 Points The producer level has the most energy.

30. Categories Why do you think most energy pyramids have less than 5 levels? Theme 3 Prompt 400 Points

31. 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

32. 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

33. Categories The other 90% of energy is used to grow, search for food, movement and reproduction. Theme 3 Response 500 Points

34. Categories What is competition? Theme 4 Prompt 100 Points

35. Categories Theme 4 Response 100 Points Competition is a struggle among organisms for resources in an ecosystem. The resources are: food, water and shelter.

36. Categories Theme 4 Prompt 200 Points What is predation?

37. Categories Predation is a relationship in which an organism (predator) kills and eats another organism (prey). Theme 4 Response 200 Points

38. Categories Theme 4 Prompt 300 Points What is a predator?

39. Categories Theme 4 Response 300 Points Predator is an organism (usually bigger, but not always) that kills and eats another organism.

40. Categories What is a prey? Theme 4 Prompt 400 Points

41. Categories Prey is an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism (predator). Theme 4 Response 400 Points

42. Categories What is symbiosis? Theme 4 Prompt 500 Points

43. Categories Symbiosis is a relationship between different species living in a close association with another one (++). Theme 4 Response 500 Points

44. Categories What is a symbiotic relationship (general meaning)? Theme 5 Prompt 100 Points

45. Categories Theme 5 Response 100 Points A symbiotic relationship is a close relationship between two organisms that may help or hurt them.

46. Categories Theme 5 Prompt 200 Points What is mutualism?

47. Categories Mutualism is a relationship between two different kinds of organisms that benefit both of them. Theme 5 Response 200 Points

48. Categories Theme 5 Prompt 300 Points What is commensalism?

49. Categories Theme 5 Response 300 Points Commensalism is a relationship between two organisms in which one benefits and the other one is harmed.

50. Categories What is parasitism? Theme 5 Prompt 400 Points

51. 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

52. Categories What is a host? What is a parasite? Theme 5 Prompt 500 Points

53. 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

54. Categories Put some closing remark here

55. Categories The Daily Double