Vocabulary Power
a living thing that breaks down dead things for food
What is a decomposer?
overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
a fungi, snail, or earthworm
What is an example of a decomposer?
What is an energy pyramid?
What is the order of any given food chain from beginning to end?
Producer, herbivore, omnivore/carnivore
A consumer that eats only meat
What is a carnivore?
an animal that hunts other animals for food
What is a predator?
a grizzly bear or pig
What is an example of an omnivore?
prey may hide from predators using this adaptation that makes them blend in with their surroundings
What is camouflage?
What would happen if all the producers on earth died?
All the animals would die as well because the herbivores would die without plants, the carnivores would die without herbivores.
the path of food from one living thing to another
What is a food chain?
a living thing that gets energy by eating other living things
What is a consumer?
grass, fruits, vegetables, leaves, etc.
What are examples of what an herbivore would eat?
What is mimicry?
What happens if one link in the food chain disappears?
All those after it would die or have to adapt to eating new things.
A living thing that makes its own food
What is a producer?
An animal that is hunted by other animals as food.
What is prey?
The start of every food chain
What is a producer?
a lion to an antelope
What is a predator?
Name one food chain of which you have been a part of today.
Start with producer, end with you
A consumer that eats only plants
What is an herbivore?
An animal that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
A rabbit to a fox
What is prey?
Producers turn energy into their own food using this process
What is photosynthesis?
Name one food chain of which you have been a part of today.
Starts with a producer, ends with person