Plants and Decomposers
An organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms & returns materials to soil
What is a decomposer?
An organism that gets energy by feeding on other organisms
What is consumer?
The first step in the food chain
Name for a living thing
What is an organism?
The three types of conservation we learned about
What are energy, water, and waste?
An organism that makes its own food
What is producer?
An animal that eats only meat/other animals
What is a carnivore?
The first consumer in the food chain
What is primary consumer?
Name for a diagram of how multiple food chains interact
What is a food web?
One way we can conserve water
Answers vary. Examples include: taking shorter showers, turning off the sink when brushing teeth, drink an entire cup of water and don't just dump out the rest, etc.
The three things a plant NEEDS to grow
What are air, water, and energy from sunlight?
An animal that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The second consumer in the food chain
What is secondary consumer?
Name for a diagram that shows how energy moves
What is a food chain?
One way we can conserve waste
Answers vary. Examples include: reducing what we use, reusing things, recycling, composting, etc.
Main examples of decomposers
What are earthworms, bacteria, and fungi?
What is an herbivore?
The direction the arrow points in a food chain/web
What is the way the energy flows? (from the food to what eats it)
Something that hunts other animals
One way we can conserve energy
Answers vary. Examples include: turning off the light when you're not in the room, unplugging things when not in use, etc.
The process by which plants make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
What is energy?
The third consumer in the food chain
What is tertiary consumer?
Something that is hunted by other animals
What is prey?
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Who is Mrs. Call?