Humans are part of food chains. In the food chain, ae humans producers or consumers?
Consumers
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
A food chain represents...
The flow of energy in an ecosystem / who is eaten by who.
What do producers do to get food?
Photosynthesis
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?
Omnivore
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. The small insects are examples of what?
Consumers
Grass → Grasshopper → Shrew → Hawk
Which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away?
Grasshopper
Deer, rabbits, and wombats are all...
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
What would a mushroom would be classified as?
Decomposer
Grass → Zebra → Hyena → Lion
What would likely happen to the lion if the zebra population decreased?
The lion population will decrease.
Fungi, worms, and bacteria are all examples of...
Decomposers
Of the three organisms below, which is not a producer:
Algae - Grass - Mushrooms
Mushrooms
How do consumers get their energy?
They eat other organisms.
Which would be an example of a primary consumer?
Fox
Plant
Caterpillar
Caterpillar
Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl
Identify the tertiary consumer.
Owl
Make a food chain from the following organisms:
Mouse - Snake - Seeds - Hawk
Seeds -> Mouse -> Snake -> Hawk
What do producers release that helps consumers breathe?
Oxygen
Identify the secondary consumer in this food chain:
Grass -> Cricket -> Shrew -> Hawk
Shrew
What organisms would experience a population decline with the loss of the rabbit?
Fox and Hawk
What purpose to decomposers serve in an ecosystem?
They make nutrients available for producers, keeping nutrients flowing.