What's for Dinner?
Food Chain Facts
Photosynthesis Power
Energy Transfer
Dynamic Decomposers
100
This type of organism makes its own food using sunlight through photosynthesis.
producer
100
What do we call one organism that hunts for another for food?
predator
100
This gas is taken in by plants during photosynthesis.
carbon dioxide
100
All food chains begin with what organism?
Producer
100
Decomposers help return these to the soil, benefiting plants.
nutrients
200
This type of organism must eat other organisms for energy and cannot produce its own food.
consumer
200
What do we call the food of a predator?
Prey
200
What are the 3 "ingredients" necessary for plants to conduct photosynthesis?
carbon dioxide, water, sunlight
200
Where does all energy in a food chain originate?
The Sun
200
Name a decomposer.
worms, mushrooms, bacteria, some insects
300
This type of consumer only eats plants.
Herbivore
300
The direction in which arrows point in a food chain shows this.
the flow of energy
300
What is created as a result of photosynthesis?
oxygen & sugar
300
Name an herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore in this web.
herbivore - mouse
omnivore - rabbit
carnivore - owl
300
What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?
To break down dead matter and waste
400
This type of consumer only eats animals.
carnivore
400
True or False: In a food chain, energy flows from prey to predator.
True
400
What is the actual name of the sugar produced by plants during photosynthesis?
glucose
400
Create a food chain with the following organisms. worm, grass, lion, sun, zebra
sun, grass, zebra, lion, worm
Be sure to have arrows!!
400
True or False: Decomposers are only active on land, not in water ecosystems.
False
500
This is the name for organisms that gain energy from eating both plants and animals.
omnivore
500
An arrangement of the organisms in an ecosystem that shows all of the possible ways that energy could be passed from one thing to another is called what?
Food web
500
Identify the chemical name for carbon dioxide, water, and oxygen.
CO2, H2O, O2
500
Explain 2 potential effects of the snake's disappearance from this food web.
Kites die.
More mice.
500
This type of decomposer can be found within any ecosystem and within just about any food chain or web.
Bacteria