Energy Vocab
any living thing
organism
Multiple food chains overlapping in an ecosystem
food web
A linear model that shows how energy flows
Food chain
only living things that make their own food
plants/producers
organisms that eat dead things
decomposers
The process that plants use sunlight to make food (sugars).
photosynthesis
Arrows
What diagram shows us what eats what in an ecosystem?
Food chain
what plants breathe out and we breathe in
oxygen
Are earthworms decomposers, producers or consumers?
Decomposers
Consumers that consume producers.
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
Food chain shows a single linear transfer of energy, Food Web is complex and interconnected
Tell me the order of a food chain for a mouse, hawk, seeds, and snake
seeds, mouse, snake, hawk
Animals that are eaten and hunted by predators.
Prey
What do worm castings provide producers?
Nutrients
organisms that eat other animals/herbivores
consumers/carnivores
In a food web, the arrow starts at one animal and points to what?
What the organism gets eaten by
The main source of energy for all life.
The sun
Animals that eat and hunt other animals
predators
Where do earthworms live?
Underground in soil.
Organisms that eat both consumers and producers
omnivores
What happens when an animal is added or removed from a food chain or food web?
It changes the energy flow of the food web or food chain.
A tiger is a good example of this kind of consumer _____.
Carnivore
The sun, water and air
What is the main role of a decomposer in an ecosystem?
Break down dead animals and waster and provide nutrients back into the soil