Producers
What do we call organisms that make their own food?
Producers
What is a consumer?
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What do decomposers break down?
Dead plants and animals.
What does a food chain show?
How energy moves from one organism to another.
What is a food web?
A group of connected food chains that shows how living things get energy from one another.
What is the main source of energy for most food chains?
The Sun.
Is a rabbit a producer or a consumer?
Rabbit is a consumer.
True or False: Decomposers help recycle nutrients.
True.
Put these in order: hawk, Sun, grass, rabbit.
Sun → grass → rabbit → hawk.
True or False: A food web shows only one feeding relationship.
False.
Is grass a producer or a consumer? Explain why.
Grass is ____because_____
Grass is producer, because it makes its own food using sunlight.
In the food chain Sun → grass → rabbit → hawk, which organisms are consumers?
The rabbit AND the hawk.
Which organism is a decomposer: soil, bacteria, or a grasshopper?
Bacteria.
What do arrows show in a food chain?
The direction energy moves.
Why might one organism appear in more than one food chain?
It may eat other organisms or be eaten by different organisms in other food chains.
Why are plants important to many animals in an ecosystem?
Plants provide food and energy directly or indirectly to animals.
Why is a rabbit considered a consumer instead of a producer?
The rabbit gets energy by eating plants instead of making its own food.
A dead tree falls in a forest. What role do decomposers play in what happens next?
They break down the dead tree and help recycle its nutrients.
In Sun → grass → grasshopper → frog, which organism gets energy from the grasshopper?
The frog.
How is a food web different from a food chain?
A Food web is a GROUP of connected food chains that shows how living things get energy from one another. A food chain shows ONE way energy moves from one living thing to another.