Vocabulary
What Eats What
Food Chains
Comparisons
Misc.
100
An organism that makes its own food is know as a?
Producer.
100
A mouse is being hunted by a snake. What is the Role of the snake?
a) prey b) predator
Predator
100
Name 3 decomposers.
worms, bacteria, fungi, snails, slugs, and mushrooms.
100
What are food webs made of?
Many food chains overlapping.
100
What do all food chains and food webs begin with?
Sun
200
What is an organism called that gets energy by eating other animals?
A consumer
200
What do predators hunt?
Prey
200
What is a food chain?
A food chain describes how different organisms eat each other, starting out with a plant and ending with an animal.
200
Name a herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore
herbivore - goat, rabbit
omnivore - mouse
carnivore - owl, lion, snake
200
Create a food chain with the following organisms. worm, grass, lion, sun, zebra, hyena
sun, grass, zebra, lion, hyena, worm
Be sure to have arrows!!
300
Animals that only eat plants
Herbivore
300
Why do animals eat one another and plants?
They need to eat things to get energy, otherwise known as consumers
300
An animal that breaks down dead material is know as a
Decomposer
300
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food webs contain multiple food chains, so they are much larger.
300
What do the arrows in a food chain or food web show?
The arrows show the flow of energy
400
Animals that only eat meat
carnivore
400
What is the name of the highest animal in the food chain?
Humans
400
How does a shark get energy?
By eating another consumer. By eating its prey.
400
What would happen if a plant or animal was taken out of the food web?
Animals would not get eaten so they would overpopulate.
or
there wouldn't be enough plants making oxygen making it hard for humans to breathe and live.
400
A deer is eating grass. This makes a deer a
Herbivore
500
What is an omnivore?
an organism that eats both plants and animals
500
A strand within the food web that shows how energy is passed from one living thing to another
grass→deer →grey wolf
Food chains
500
Give an example of a scavenger in a food chain.
crows, hyena, vulture, bears, coyote, lobsters, crabs, wolves,.ravens, condors etc.
500
Give an example of two animals that have a predator-prey relationship?
Cat and mouse
Deer and a lion
Mouse and a snake
An eagle and a frog etc.
500
What is the process that plants use to make energy?
Photosynthesis