Producers & Consumers
This organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
The main source of energy for most ecosystems.
What is the sun?
This organism would be very bad at being a producer because it cannot make its own food.
What is any animal?
This word describes differences within members of the same species.
What is variation?
This term describes a group of organisms that can reproduce together and produce offspring.
What is a species?
This type of consumer eats plants only.
What is a herbivore?
In a food chain: grass ->mouse -> snake ->hawk, what is the secondary consumer?
What is the snake?
If you eat a salad, you are eating this type of organism.
What is a producer?
This is an inherited trait that helps organisms survive.
What is an adaptation?
This is when a species changes slowly over time.
What is evolution?
This organism breaks down dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
A diagram that shows many food chains connected together.
What is a food web?
This is what plants need from the Sun to make food.
What is energy?
This process happens when individuals with helpful traits survive and reproduce more successfully.
What is natural selection?
This is the timescale over which evolution happens.
What is many generations?
In the food chain, grass ->rabbit ->fox, this organism is a primary consumer.
What is the rabbit?
This percentage of energy is passed from one organism to the next.
What is 10%
If a fox eats a rabbit, the fox is this type of consumer.
What is a predator OR secondary consumer?
In a snowy environment, this rabbit colour is more likely to survive.
What is white?
This is something an individual organism cannot do during its lifetime.
What is evolve?
If all producers disappeared from an ecosystem, this would eventually happen to consumers.
Their populations would decrease.
This is what happens to most of the energy at each step in a food chain.
What is lost as heat?
If plants disappeared tomorrow, this would happen to animals very quickly.
What is they will run out of food OR they would die?
This adaptation helps an organism blend into its environment to avoid predators.
What is camouflage?
When different environments lead to different traits in organisms, this increases.
What is biodiversity?