Producers & Consumers
The process by which plants use energy from the Sun to combine water with gas from the air.
What is photosynthesis?
Animals that eat only meat; the seconday consumer, or third link.
What is a carnivore?
An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
What is a prey?
Shows how energy is used by living things transferred to the environment as it passes from parts of a food chain or web.
What is an energy pyramid?
Special body parts or behaviors to survive.
What is an adaptation?
Can't make their own food, depend on producers for food.
What is a consumer?
Animals that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
A collection of living and nonliving things and the ways they affect each other.
What is an ecosystem?
What is a food chain?
_____ species can invade and can cause damage to an ecosystem.
Invasive
Give an example of a consumer. *Hint = they can't make their own food.*
Humans, animals, etc.
Living things that eat plants.
What is a primary consumer?
Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
What is a predator?
Scientists estimate that about ___ tenth of the energy is passed from one link in a food chain to the next.
one
A "chain reaction" can cause living things or species to become _____.
Produce, or make their own food.
What is a producer?
Carnivores that eat other carnivores.
What is a tertiary consumer?
An animal that feeds on dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
A complex web of relationships between living things.
What is a food web?
Changes in an ecosystem can make it harder for living things to _____. It can also affect other living things in the food web.
survive
Give an example of a producer.
Grass, trees, algae, etc.
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
What is a omnivore?
The last link of the food chain are nature's recyclers.
What is a decomposer?
Food chains can't have too many links because the animals at the end of the chain would not get enough _______ to stay alive.
food/energy
Name 1-3 things that can change an ecosystem.
- Diseases/illnesses/sickness
- Natural disasters/wildfires
- Global warming