Producers
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
What do producers do to get food?
Photosynthesis
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?
Omnivore
Grass → Grasshopper → Shrew → Hawk
Which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away?
Grasshopper
Name 3 things that a producer needs to make its own food. (Hint: Remember the equation for photosynthesis)
Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, and Water
When consumers breathe out what type of gas do they produce?
Carbon Dioxide
Grass → Zebra → Hyena → Lion
What would likely happen to the lion if the zebra population decreased?
The lion population will decrease.
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
How do consumers get their energy?
They eat other organisms.
Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl
Identify the tertiary consumer.
Owl
What do producers release that helps consumers breathe?
Oxygen
Identify the secondary consumer in this food chain:
Grass -> Cricket -> Shrew -> Hawk
Shrew