Producers
Consumers
Producers, Consumers, Or Decomposers
Food Chain
Food Web
100
Where do plants get their energy from?
The Sun
100
What do you call an organism that only eats plants?
Herbivore
100
People are part of food chains. What is the role of a person in a food chain?
Consumer
100
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
The passing of energy from one organism to another
100
Put these in correct food chain order:
hyena
sun
zebra
grass
Sun -> Grass -> Zebra -> Hyena
200
What do producers do to get food?
Photo synthesis
200
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?
An omnivore
200
Amy is planting tomatoes and carrots in her garden. She notices that small insects like to eat her tomatoes and carrots just like she does. Amy and the small insects are both examples of what?
Primary Consumers
200
In the food chain Sun → Grass → Grasshopper → Bird which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away.
Grasshopper
200
What is the fiercest and strongest predator in a food web called?
top predator or top carnivore
300
Name 3 things that a producer needs to make its own food
Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, and Water
300
When consumers breathe out, what type of gas do they produce?
Carbon Dioxide
300
In a food web, what is a mushroom classified as?
Decomposer
300
In the food chain Sun → Grass → Zebra → Lion, what would likely happen to the lion population if the zebra population decreased?
The lion population would likely decrease.
300
Coyotes and rattlesnakes both eat mice. But the rattlesnakes also eat frogs.
What would happen to the coyote and rattlesnakes if all mice were to die?
Coyotes would lose their food and probably decrease in population but rattlesnakes would still have frogs and so would not be as affected.
400
Juan wants to grow a sunflower. He makes sure that the plant has the following items in order to grow; sunlight, water, other organisms, and air. Which of these items does the plant NOT need in order to grow?
Other organisms
400
How do consumers get their energy?
By eating other organisms
400
In a forest biome, which would be an example of a secondary consumer? A bird, a plant, or a caterpillar?
bird
400
In the food chain Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl what would likely happen to the mice population if the snake population decrease?
The mice population would likely increase
400
A food web shows how a group of _____________ are linked together.
food chains
500
What do producers release that consumers need?
Oxygen
500
Colin can no longer keep his aquarium that is a home to several pet fish. He is thinking of letting the fish go free in a nearby creek. What is the most likely long term negative effect on the native populations?
Colin's fish are invasive species and may compete for food and shelter.
500
Name one of the 2 tertiary consumers.
The owl or the snake
500
In the food chain Tree → Deer →Mountain Lion
what would be the result if the tree population decreased due to a forest fire?
The deer and mountain lion populations would decrease
500
In a food web, what direction do the arrows point?
In the direction the energy travels (towards the organism that is using the energy)