Producers
What is a producer?
A organism that creates their own food through processes like photosynthesis.
What is a consumer?
Organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other living things.
Place the organisms in order in a food chain.
Hawk, grass, snake, rabbit
Grass --->Rabbit--->Snake--->Hawk
What is natural selection?
Traits that aid in survival will be passed down from generation to generation.
True or False?
Producers are the primary source of energy in an ecosystem.
True
True or False?
Primary consumers eat secondary consumers.
False
Where does energy from the food chain start?
The sun
What is an inherited trait?
Features passed down form generation to generation
What do producers use to create energy?
Sunlight
What kind of consumers eat dead animals/organic matter?
Decomposers
When food chains interconnect in a habitat it is called a _________.
Food web
What is an acquired trait?
Traits that are developed over time
Producers are always ______.
Plants
Tertiary consumers eat _________.
Secondary consumers
How can removing a species affect a food chain/web?
Each organism looses their food source, causing them to die out.
Evolution means to _______.
The process in which producers make food is called ___________.
Photosynthesis
Name 3 types of consumers.
Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore
Food webs show how _____ flows in an ecosystem.
Energy
The Theory of Evolution was created by _________.
Charles Darwin