Producers
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
These animals eat other plants or animals to get energy.
What are consumers?
These break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
A diagram that shows who eats what in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
What happens if all the plants in a food chain die?
What is the whole food chain is affected or breaks down?
This green plant is a common producer in people's yards.
What is grass?
This furry animal loves to munch on carrots.
What is a rabbit?
This tiny decomposer helps make healthy soil.
What is a worm?
The direction the arrows point in a food chain shows this.
What is the flow of energy?
This can happen to animals if their food source disappears.
What is they may starve or move?
Plants use this process to make food from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
A lion is this type of consumer because it eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
Mushrooms are an example of this type of organism.
What is a fungus?
This term describes an animal that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
Pollution in water might harm these bottom-of-chain producers.
What is algae or plants?
Trees, grass, and algae are examples of these.
What are producers?
This consumer eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
These decomposers are too small to see without a microscope.
What are bacteria?
This term describes an animal that hunts another for food.
What is predator?
Removing a top predator can cause too many of these animals.
What are herbivores or prey?
These underwater plants are producers in oceans and lakes.
What is algae?
Humans are this type of consumer because we eat plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Decomposers help do this to nutrients in the soil.
What is recycle or return them?
A group of food chains connected together.
What is a food web?
When humans cut down forests, it affects this part of the food chain first.
What are producers or plants?