Vocabulary
What is a consumer?
An organism that gets its energy by eating. Does not produce its own food.
This provides energy for all living things and is at the very beginning of all food chains.
The sun
What does a producer need to make its own food?
water, sunlight, and air (carbon dioxide)
How does a consumer get energy?
By eating plants or animals.
What is an example of a decomposer?
Worms, fungi, bacteria, ants, etc.
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food (plants)
The first organism in a food chain is called a:
Producer
Name one example of a producer.
Grass, trees, plants, algae, etc.
What is a primary consumer?
An organism that eats plants. (Herbivore)
What do decomposers eat?
They eat dead organisms.
What is photosynthesis?
The process through which producers make their own food using sunlight, water, and air (carbon dioxide)
In the food chain “grass → rabbit → fox,” the rabbit is this type of consumer.
What is a primary consumer?
Cutting down forests removes this important part of a food web.
What are producers/trees?
What is a secondary consumer?
An organism that eats other animals/meat. (Carnivore)
How are decomposers beneficial?
They are the "clean up crew" of the environment, they clean up dead plants and animals and return the nutrients to the soil.
What is an ecosystem?
A community of living and nonliving things in an area.
If all the plants in a food web died, these consumers would be affected first.
What are herbivores or primary consumers?
This process describes how producers use carbon dioxide (air), water, and sunlight to create glucose (sugar) and release oxygen.
Photosynthesis
What is a tertiary consumer?
An organism that can eat both plants and animals (Can be a carnivore or omnivore).
If decomposers disappeared from an ecosystem, this would happen to dead plants and animals over time.
They would pile up and not break down!
The path energy takes from one organism to another.
In a food chain, this arrow shows the direction of something being transferred.
What is energy?
This is the air (gas) that we breathe out and producers use to make their food.
Carbon dioxide
A shark is at the top of the food chain. This makes it a ____.
An apex predator or tertiary consumer
Decomposers help cycle nutrients back into the soil, which helps this group of organisms grow.
Producers/Plants