Producer
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a consumer?
Eats plants and or animals for energy
What is a decomposer?
Decomposeres break down dead organisms
A ___________ makes its own energy and begins the food chain.
Producer
What is an energy pyramid?
Is an diagram that shows an ecosystem loss of energy.
The process that plants use to make food
Photosynthesis
What are the 3 ways a consumer be classified as?
Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore.
What are two of the most common decomposers?
Fungi and bacteria.
What is the difference between a food chain and food web?
A food web shows an animal eating more than one other organism. A food chain single line and shows that animal eats one organism
What uses most of the suns energy?
Grass and plants
How producers and consumers are related?
Consumers can eat producers?
Animals that feed on dead animals.
Scavengers
Decomposers play an important part in our what?
Ecosystem.
True or False: if one part in a food web dies off everything else will die off to.
False
What is a community?
All the populations of species that live and interact in an area.
What is the special green pigment in the process of photosynthesis.
Chlorophyll
Cows, rabbits, deer, sheep, and grasshoppers are all what?
Herbivores
True or False? Without decomposers dead plants and animal material would pile up everywhere.
True
Form a food web: snake, grass, eagle, mouse
Grass, mouse, snake, eagle?
Why are there usually few organisms at the top of the energy pyramid?
Energy is lost from one level to the next that the energy can only support a few
Name the 4 things that plants and algae need for the process of photosynthesis
Sunlight, water, air, and chlorophyll.
Snakes hunt and eat mice, rats, rabbits, and eggs. What type of consumer are snakes.
Carnivore
What is the difference between scavengers and decomposers?
scavenger consumes dead plants, animals or carrion to break down the organic materials into small particles where as decomposer consumes the small particles produced by the scavengers.
The influence of people and things on each other.
Interactions?
What would happen to the ecosystem if the biomass of primary consumers was higher than the biomass of producers?
The primary consumers will eat all of the producers...no more organisms to convert light energy to chemical energy (glucose)