Consumers
Consumers get their energy by eating these types of organisms.
What are producers?
Decomposers break down dead plants and animals, returning these to the soil and air.
What are nutrients?
This type of diagram shows the flow of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
This is the source of energy for almost all ecosystems on Earth.
What is the Sun?
This term describes all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area.
What is an ecosystem?
This is the type of consumer that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
This type of decomposer is a fungus that grows on rotting logs and other dead matter.
What is a mushroom?
This is always the first link in a food chain, providing energy for all other organisms.
What is a producer?
The process plants use to convert sunlight into energy is called this.
What is photosynthesis?
These organisms can make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What are producers?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals are called this.
What are omnivores?
This group of tiny decomposers is responsible for breaking down dead material and can even be found in soil.
What are bacteria?
In a food chain, this type of consumer eats a primary consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
True or flase: energy flows in this direction—from producers to consumers to decomposers.
Animals that eat dead organisms but do not break them down completely, like vultures, are called this.
What are scavengers?
Animals like lions that eat only meat are called this.
What are carnivores?
These invertebrate decomposers are commonly found in compost bins, eating and breaking down dead plants.
What are worms?
If a fox eats a rabbit that has eaten grass, the fox is this type of consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
Energy is lost in the form of this as it moves through the food chain.
What is heat?
This is the term for the place where an organism lives and gets everything it needs to survive.
What is an habitat?
This term describes an animal that hunts other animals for food.
What are predators?
Decomposers are important in this cycle because they help recycle carbon back into the air.
What is the carbon cycle?
In this type of complex system, multiple food chains are connected to show all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
In a food chain, only about this percentage of energy is passed on to the next trophic level.
This is the term for an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
What is prey?