Energy
All plants that make their own food are called?
What is a producer
Food chains illustrate the relationship between organism within a/an _________.
What is ecosystem, community, habitat, biome, population
True or False; All living things on Earth could be connected in one giant food web.
What is true
Make a food chain with the following: mouse - snake -seeds - hawk
What is seeds - mouse - snake - hawk
Organisms that need to eat/get their own food to live are called?
What is consumers
Animals that eat ONLY other animals are called __________.
What are carnivores
What is always the first trophic level of a food chain?
What is a producer
Food webs have many arrows, what are these arrows showing?
What is the direction the energy is flowing/going
What do we call a living thing that can function on its own?
What is an organism
All living things need food to give them _____________?
What is energy
Animals that eat BOTH plants and animals are called ________.
What are omnivores
Organisms that eat/come right after producers are called ___________.
What are primary consumers
What do we call the level of consumers that eat primary consumers?
What are secondary consumers
What do we call organisms that break down dead plants and animals to then recycle energy?
What are decomposers
Energy is passed through different levels of energy pyramids, food chains, and food webs. What are these levels called?
What are trophic levels
An organism that hunts other animals for food are called ___________.
What is a predator
A consumer may be a ___________, a __________, or a ___________. (think about the food they eat)
What is an omnivore, a herbivore, or a carnivore
A food web is like a spider web, all things are connected...What happens when a part of it is pulled out or broken?
What is it falls apart
True or False; Decomposers are at the last trophic level of the food chain. (explain your answer)
What is false; they exist in all levels because they break down any dead organism.
List, in the correct order, the four different levels of energy we used for our lab energy pyramid.
What is producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers.
An animal that is being hunted by a predator is called __________.
What is prey
All food chains/webs begin with producers making their own food, what is this process called?
What is photosynthesis
What type of living thing would be found at the TOP of a food web?
What is an apex predator OR tertiary consumer
Producers (plants) need three things to get their energy; list these three things.
What is sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide