Energy
green plants that make their own food are called
What is a producer
Photosynthesis is the process used by ____________.
What are producers
Food webs are more complex food chains, showing_________.
feeding interactions
animals that need to eat to live are called
What is consumers
______ ______,________and ______ are the reactants in photosynthesis.
What are carbon dioxide,water, and sunlight.
Fungi is an example of a ___________.
What is decomposer
Something that shows how ALL the animals in a COMMUNITY get
What is a food web
All living things need food to give you_____________
What is energy
______ and _______ are the products of photosynthesis.
What are glucose and oxygen
Without ______ nothing on earth would be living because there would be no source of energy.
the sun
The role of decomposers
What is to breakdown dead plants and animals and return the raw material back into the Ecosystem ( nutrients for producers)
Food webs show this
Competition and feeding interactions.
Living and nonliving parts and their interactions
What is an ecosystem
The arrows in a food chain or Food web represent the ________ ________.
What is Energy Flow
Decomposers and producers depend on each other in an ecosystem
What is decomposers breakdown dead plant and animals into organic material that is used as nutrients for the producers in the soil.
In an aquatic environment, decomposers give off CO2 and producers use the CO2 as a reactant in photosynthesis
All green plants (producers) get their energy from the ____.Photosynthesis takes place in the ________.
What is sun and chloroplast
There is a drought and the plants do not produce enough food for the primary consumers.
The food web is affected because the plants are food for the consumers so there might be an inbalance in the population of consumers in the food web.
See Handout
Draw food web with arrows going in the correct direction and all arrows leading back to decomposer (bacteria)