Food Chains
An animal that hunts other animals, like a lion or a bear.
Name something living in an ecosystem.
Plants, animals, insects
What is a producer?
Something that makes, or produces, its own food, like a plant
What is a consumer?
Something that must get its food in order to survive, like an animal.
What non-living thing allows all life to be possible because plants use it to survive and in turn, animals eat the plants for food?
Sun
What is a food chain?
Something that shows how animals eat other animals and use each other for energy.
Name something that is non-living in an ecosystem.
Air, water, soil, rocks, sunlight
What is an example of a producer?
Grass, trees, flowers
What is an example of a consumer?
Humans, lions, birds, bears, insects
If the grass got destroyed in an ecosystem, what might happen to the food chain?
It can get destroyed because without grass, some animals would not survive. Then, animals that eat the other animals would not survive either.
What is something that could destroy a food chain or an ecosystem?
Floods, hurricanes, diseases, hunting, tornadoes, any natural disaster
Name a type of ecosystem.
Forest, tundra, rain forest, grassland, ocean
Why are plants important to food chains?
What is an herbivore?
An animal that eats only plants
What is a food web?
Many food chains put together in an ecosystem
What is prey?
Animals that get hunted by other animals for food.
What is an ecosystem?
A system of living and non-living things that work together.
What do all plants depend on to get food?
What is a carnivore?
An animal that eats only meat.
Give an example of a food chain that starts with the sun.
Example- sun, grass, rabbit, fox
What is a decomposer?
Something, like bacteria, that breaks down dead plant and animal remains.
What is the difference between the words biotic and abiotic?
Biotic means living things
Abiotic mean non-living things
What is the name of the process plants use to make food?
Photosynthesis
What is an omnivore?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
Name something in an ecosystem that is biotic and something that is abiotic.
Biotic- plants, animals
Abiotic- air, dirt, rock