Vocabulary
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food.
An organism that gets its energy from the sun.
Plants.
Autotroph.
What is an example of a biotic and abiotic factor?
Biotic: humans, tree, plants, animals, rabbit
Abiotic: Air, water, rocks, soil, sand
What is a decomposer?
A decomposer is something that breaks down dead organisms.
fungus, bacteria
What is a primary consumer?
A primary consumer is an organism that gets its energy from producers.
Heterotrophs.
Rabbit.
Where do producers get their energy from?
The sun!
What is a scavenger?
A scavenger is something that eats dead animals. It does not kill them, it finds them already dead and eats what is left over.
Raccoon
What are biotic and abiotic factors?
Biotic- living
Abiotic- non-living
What is an example of a producer, primary, and secondary consumer?
Producer: grass
Primary Consumer: grasshopper
Secondary consumer: fox
What is an autotroph?
Synonym?
Example?
An organism that makes its own food.
Producer
Grass
What is an ecosystem?
Where organisms live, their habitat.
Eco (house), system (unit of things living/working together)
What has more energy a plant or a tiger?
Why?
A tiger. A plant gets its energy directly from the sun.
What is a heterotroph?
Synonym?
Example?
An organism that eats other organisms for food.
Consumer
Lion
What is an ecology?
The study of living organisms in their habitat.
Where organisms live.
Eco (house) ology (the study of)
What do the arrows in a food chain show?
The direction of the energy.
What will happen to the consumer population if you have more consumers than producers?
The consumers will compete for food. Some will starve and die.