Food chains and energy pyramids
Type of consumer
Vocabulary
decomposers
100

What does a food chain always start with?

A producer 

100

How many different types of consumers are there?

3

100

Definition: Any organism that makes its own food.

Producer 

100

Name a type of decomposer. 

Answers will vary. 

200

grass--- rabbit---fox---bear


What is the primary consumer in this food chain?

rabbit

200

What do you call an animal that only eats plants?

Herbivore

200

Definition: An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms

Consumer 

200
______ are one group of organisms that are too small to be seen without a microscope. 

Bacteria 

300

grass---mouse---snake---eagle

What is the secondary consumer in this food chain?

snake

300

What do you call an animal that eats plants and animals?

Omnivore 

300

Definition: An organism that breaks down dead material and waste to live and grow

decomposer

300

What do decomposers put back into the soil?

Nutrients 

400

What starts with the most energy in an energy pyramid?

The producer 

400

What do you call an animal that only eats other animals?

Carnivore 

400

Definition: A model that shows the amount of energy that is passed on at each level of the food chain 

energy pyramid 

400

What would happen if we did not have decomposers?

Dead material would build up. 

500

What consumer receives the least amount of energy in an energy pyramid?

Third stage consumer/ tertiary consumer/ top predator 

500

Name an animal that would be considered to be a carnivore. 

Answers may vary

Examples: tigers, lions, jaguars 

500

Definition: A diagram that shows the many connected food chains and feeding relationships in an ecosystem.

Food web

500

True or false

Fungi are a type of decomposers. 

True 

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