Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers 2
Food webs/Food chains
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Living things that make their own food are known as
What is a producer?
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How do consumers get the energy they need in order to survive?
What is by eating other organisms?
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A diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organisms to another.
What is a food chain?
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The process producers use to get food.

Photosynthesis

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True or False:

Energy increases as you go UP the energy pyramid.

False!

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 Name five examples of producers.

What is trees, bushes, grass, ferns, flowers, etc.

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What are the three kinds of consumers?
What is herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
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A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
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The part of the plant that makes it green.

Chlorophyll

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True or False:

Most food chains start with carnivores.

False!

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Explain the importance of decomposers in an ecosystem.
What is decomposers are nature's recyclers.
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 Consumers known as omnivores eat _________________

What is both plants and animals?

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A diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy.
What is an energy pyramid?
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How much energy is passed from one level in the energy pyramid to the next?

10%

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A mushroom is an example of a:

Decomposer or detritivore

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_______________ are omnivores that eat dead plants and animals.
What is scavengers?
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Organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms are called _____________________.
What is decomposers?
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Form a food chain using the following organisms: snake, grass, eagle, mouse
What is grass, mouse, snake, eagle?
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List the order that energy is passed on from one organism section to another on the energy pyramid.

Sun, Producer, Herbivore (consumer), Carnivore (consumer), Decomposer

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What do producers eat?

H2O + CO2 + Sunlight

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Describe how producers, consumers, and decomposers are linked in a food chain.
Consumers feed on producers and other consumers. Decomposers feed on producers and other consumers after they are dead.
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Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called _________________. They do this by using a process called ______________________.
What is producers and photosynthesis?
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Why are producers located at the bottom of an energy pyramid?
Producers get their energy from the sunlight for it own life processes.
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What is the source of almost all of the energy in our ecosystem?

The SUN!

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An animal that eats both plants and other animals is a:

Omnivore

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