Vocabulary
Shows how each living thing gets food and how nutrients and energy are passed from organism to organism
What is Food Chain
A giraffe is eating leaves from a tree. This makes the giraffe a _______________.
What is a consumer?
A mouse is being hunted by a snake. What is the role of the snake?
What is predator?
The following is a three link food chain:
Corn---->Mouse------>snake
What is the corn's role in the food chain?
What is a producer?
Organisms that produce their own food
What is producer?
The grass is making its own food. This makes the grass a _____________.
What is a producer?
If a frog eats a fly, what is the role of the fly?
What is prey?
The following is a three link food chain:
Corn---->Mouse------>snake
What is the snake's role in the food chain?
What is a (secondary) consumer?
Organisms that can't make their own food. They must eat other organisms for energy.
Consumer
A mushroom is a __________________.
What is a decomposer?
A fox is chasing a rabbit. What role is the fox?
The following is a four link food chain:
Carrots---->Rabbit---->Fox---->Lion
What is the lion's role in the food chain?
What is a (tertiary/third) consumer?
Animal that hunts another animal
What is a predator?
The grasshopper ate the grass, then the bird ate the grasshopper. The bird and the grasshopper are _____________.
What is a consumer?
Give an example of one predator-prey relationship.
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The following is an five link food chain:
plankton--->shrimp--->fish--->dolphin--->killer whale
Is the killer whale a predator or prey in the food chain? How do you know?
What is a predator?
A relationship where one organisms hunts down, kills ,and eats another organism
What is a predator-prey relationship?
Worms break down plants. This makes the worm a ____________.
What is a decomposer?
Give an example of two animals that have a predator -prey relationship.
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The following is a five link food chain:
leaf--->caterpillar--->lizard--->snake--->Hawk
The lizard is prey for what animal in the food chain?
What is snake?