Vocabulary
What is a producer?
Organisms that make or produce their own food.
What is at the bottom of the food chain?
define herbivore
animals that eat ONLY plants
Give an example of a decomposer
fungus
mushrooms
flies
vulture
What is a consumer?
Animals that eat or consume plants or other animals for food.
What might happen to a food chain if one organism completely disappered?
1. If one disappeared, the other organisms would have to find different food.
2. There would be an overpopulation of one species
3. If they eat other things, there will be less of that food
define carnivore
animals that eat ONLY meat
What do plants use to make sugar for food?
3 things
What is a decomposer? How is it like a consumer? (write 1 sentence for EACH question)
Decomposers break down organisms that are no longer living.
They are like a consumer because they eat dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
Small living things that break down organisms and return nutrients to the soil.
Draw a food web and include the following: hawk, snake, mouse, grass
write here:
define omnivore
What is biomass?
The measure of the total mass of the living things in the environment
(write this on your packet to study!!)