Vocab
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Producer, Consumer or Decomposer
100
What is a food chain?
A food chain shows how energy passes from one living thing to another living thing.
100
What is the start of the food chain?
The producer
100
Why do consumers have to rely on producers?
They do not make their own food or energy so they need the producers to get food and energy.
100
What is a decompser?
A decomposer breaks down the bodies of dead plants and animals into smaller pieces.
100
Mushroom
decomposer
200
What is a producer?
Green plants are producers.
200
Give an example of a producer.
Accept any answers that are green plants.
200
What is the name of the consumer that eats plants?
Herbivore
200
What does a decomposer eat?
Only dead plants and animals.
200
cactus
Producer
300
What is a consumer?
A consumer is a living thin that eats other living things.
300
What is unique about producers?
They use the sun to make their own food and energy.
300
What is the name of the consumer that eats meat only?
Carnivore
300
Give an example of a decomposer
Teacher must decide if correct.
300
cow
consumer
400
What is a predator?
Animals that hunt other animals for food.
400
How are producers like animals that hibernate?
They store up water for the dry season so they have something to live off of.
400
What is the name of the consumer that eats both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore.
400
What do the decomposers do for the producers?
They help get the food energy from the dead plants or bodies back into the soil for the producers.
400
pine tree
producer
500
What is prey?
Animals that are hunted.
500
Here is an example of a food chain: Grass- Mouse-Snake-Hawk What is the producer?
The grass
500
Give an example of a herbivore, carnivore and omnivore.
Answers may vary. Teacher must decide if correct.
500
Give an example of decomposer.
Teacher must decide if correct.
500
bacteria
decomposer
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