food chain
What's an example of a food chain in Montana?
berries-->mouse-->owl-->fox-->coyote-->bear
What's a food web?
What is a producer in Montana?
strawberries
Name a slimy decomposer.
Worms and maggots
What is a consumer?
A consumer is something that consumes another living thing.
What is a food chain?
A simple diagram showing how energy moves through an ecosystem.
What starts a food web?
Energy from the sun
What's a producer in the ocean?
phytoplankton
Name one microscopic decomposer.
Bacteria
What's a top apex predator?
Something that can't be eaten by another.
What is an example of a food chain in a desert?
Insects-->Rodents-->Snake-->Hawk
What travels through a food web?
Matter and energy.
What's a producer in the desert?
cactus
Why are they called decomposers
They decompose things like dead animals and rotten wood.
What's the top predator in Montana?
Grizzly Bear
What is an example of a food chain in a Tundra?
Bog Cranberries-->Rabbit-->Owl-->Wolf
How are food webs and food chains different?
A food chain outlines who eats whom. A food web is all the food chains in an ecosystem.
What's a producer in the rain forest?
Canopy Trees
Why are decomposers so important?
They produce nutrients for the plants.
What's the top predator in the ocean?
Killer whales
How does energy and matter flow through a food chain.
Primary producers use energy from the sun to produce their own food in the form of glucose, and then primary producers are eaten by primary consumers who are in turn eaten by secondary consumers, and so on, so that energy flows from one trophic level, or level of the food chain, to the next.
How many types of food webs are there?
An ecosystem usually has two different types of food webs: a grazing food web based on photosynthetic plants or algae, along with a detrital food web based on decomposers.
Where do producers get their energy?
The sun.
What is the biggest decomposer?
Fungi
What is the top apex predator on land?
Tiger