Producers
How do they create food?
Photosynthesis.
What is one example of a decomposer.
True or false:
The red arrows in a food chain represent which organisms are smaller to bigger
False
what is one thing ALWAYS found in a food web?
what are the three types of consumers?
Primary, secondary and tertiary consumers.
What is an example of a producer?
can true decomposers be vertebrates?
No, true decomposers cannot be vertebrates.
what is a food chain?
A model showing one pathway of energy transfer.
True or false:
Food Chains are smaller than food webs
what are secondary consumers?
Organisms that eat primary consumers.
What Is the primary source fo energy that producers use?
Sunlight
What is the job of a decomposer?
Decomposers (fungi, bacteria) break down dead matter and recycle nutrients into the ecosystem.
what 2 things to food chains show the movement of?
Nutrients and Energy
what are trophic levels?
A trophic level is the feeding position an organism has in a food chain or food web.
True or False:
consumers can make their own food
False
What do producers release during Photosynthesis?
Oxygen
what do decomposers turn dead matter into?
nutrient-rich soil
What is something natural that can change a food chain completely.
Climate change, Pollution, Natural Disasters, Deforestation, Human Activity, etc
describe what " who eats what " means in a food web
Our decision
what trophic level falls right above secondary consumers?
Tertiary consumers/ apex predators
Where are producers located in the energy pyramid.
The base
Decomposers help maintain soil quality by returning _______and _______ to the soil.
Nutrients and minerals
What is chemical energy in a food chain?
The type of energy producers store and pass through a food chain.
Food webs show that most organisms depend on more than one of these.
A food source
What are 3 examples of a tertiary consumer/apex predators that start with the letter S
Shark, Snow Leopard and snake