Consumers
This consumer eats only other consumers (animals).
What is a carnivore?
This is where producers get the energy they need for the chemical reaction to make food.
What is the sun/sunlight?
These organisms consume matter that was once living and break it down as part of decay. They are important for recycling matter in food webs.
What are decomposers?
This natural resource comes from living plants, and is used for building.
What is wood?
This can be very large or very small and includes all of the living and nonliving things to support life.
What is an ecosystem?
This type of consumer may be a secondary or tertiary consumer, and it consumes both producers (plants) and other consumers (animals).
What is an omnivore?
When producers are finished converting water and carbon dioxide to glucose, they let off this gas into the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
These organisms seek out living things that are already dead for consumption instead of hunting.
What are scavengers?
This is the most common natural resource on the planet. However, very little of this resource is in an easily usable form because it is salty or frozen.
What is water?
The whole surface of the ________ is a series of connected ecosystems.
What is the Earth?
This consumer comes immediately after the producer in a food chain. It does not eat any other consumers.
What is primary consumer? OR What is an herbivore?
What is the name of the process that plants and other producers use to convert energy, water, and carbon dioxide into food?
What is photosynthesis?
This single-celled organism is the most common decomposer.
What are bacteria?
What are fossil fuels?
The Earth has 5-6 different ___________, where many connected ecosystems are located.
What is a biome?
This term refers to an animal or consumer that is hunted by another animal. It may be a primary or secondary consumer.
What is prey?
This is the name of the primary molecule that producers make as a food source.
What is glucose?
This type of decomposers belongs to the animal kingdom and includes dung beetles.
This natural resource is very common, but not having it or having it polluted can lead to famine and poor crop growth.
What is soil?
Forest ecosystems can be disrupted by this human activity where the trees are removed for their resources or to make space for farms and cities.
What is deforestation?
Tertiary consumers may be called by another term that refers to their place at the top of a food chain.
What is apex predator?
This is the type of molecule that plants use from the atmosphere with water and sunlight to create glucose and oxygen.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is a common decomposer that has multi-celled organisms and includes mushrooms.
When you try to save a natural resource so that it does not run out too quickly, it is called this.
What is conservation?
This is a location where laws and boundaries try to protect an ecosystem.
What is a preserve?