Ecosystems
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Food Webs and Food Chains
100
Ecosystems include all BLANK and BLANK in an environment.
What is all living and non-living things.
100
Producers include all:
What is plants.
100
The three kinds of consumers are:
What is herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
100
Decomposers eat what:
What is dead plants and animals.
100
Food webs are made of overlapping what?
What is food chains.
200
Three non-living parts of an ecosystem include:
What is air, water, soil, sunlight, climate, and landforms.
200
Producers make their own food from three things:
What is sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
200
Humans are examples of what type of consumer:
What is omnivores.
200
Decomposers include what three types of living things:
What is bacteria, fungus, and insects.
200
What starts all food chains?
What is the sun, sunlight, or energy from the sun.
300
Four kinds of ecosystems include:
What is desert, grasslands, tundra, tropical rainforest, forest, ocean, freshwater
300
Producers are eaten by what group of animals?
What is herbivores
300
The population of consumers will increase if:
What is their food sources increase.
300
Decomposers create nutrients and minerals for what group?
What is producers or plants.
300
How many directions can a food chain travel in?
What is one and only one always and forever.
400
An plant and animals job is also called its:
What is niche
400
I'm a single celled organism that makes its own food and lives in ocean and freshwater ecosystems.
What is algae or protists
400
I'm a special type of carnivore that eats only animals that are already dead.
What is a scavenger.
400
Decomposers work better and faster when there is more what in the ecosystem?
What is moisture or water or oxygen
400
What two basic things travel in a food chain and food web?
What is energy and matter.
500
A prairie dog's burrow is its:
What is habitat.
500
Explain what would happen if producers were removed from an ecosystem.
What is the herbivores would die, then the carnivores would die, then the omnivores would die.
500
This is a tiny, microscopic consumer that eats algae. Hint: I live mostly in oceans, lakes, ponds, and rivers, not the zoo.
What is zooplankton.
500
As decomposers break down dead plants and animals what gas is released into the air?
What is carbon dioxide.
500
What can you add to a food web that will destroy the ecosystem?
What is invasive species, or pollution, or storms, or overhunting.
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