Producers, Consumers,
& Decomposers
& Decomposers
The term for all living things.
What is organism?
Fungi, earthworms, slugs, and termites are all examples of ______________.
The term for a consumer that eats only plant material.
What is herbivore?
A model that shows the flow of energy between organisms.
What is a Food Chain?
A system of living things and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
An organism that breaks down waste and dead materials.
What is a decomposer?
Cows, lions, sharks, turtles, and humans are all examples of _______________.
What are consumers?
The term for a consumer that only eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
The carnivore in the following food chain:
blackberries--> blue jay--> housecat
What is housecat?
A model that shows the interactions between many different food chains and their environment.
What is a Food Web?
The type of organism that needs to eats other organisms to survive.
What is a consumer?
Grass, an oak tree, and a dandelion are all examples of _________.
What are producers?
The term for a consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
The producer in the following food chain:
desert grasses --> zebra --> lion
What is dessert grasses?
All of the energy in an ecosystem can be traced back to the _____________.
What is the sun?
The type of organism that turns sunlight into energy, thereby creating its own food.
What is a producer?
The type of organism that returns nutrients back into the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
The term for consumers who HUNT other consumers.
What is predator?
The herbivore in the following food chain:
grass--> grasshopper--> mouse --> snake.
What is grasshopper?
In a food chain/web, the arrows show the flow of _________________.
What is energy?
An ecosystem would fill up with waste and dead plants/animals if all the ecosystem's _________________ disappeared.
What is decomposers?
An ecosystem's herbivores would die off if all the ________________ disappeared.
The term for consumers who are HUNTED BY other consumers.
In a food chain, if one link is removed, the whole chain _________________.
What is falls apart?
What is go extinct?