Food Chains and Food Webs
All of the energy in an ecosystem comes from where?
The Sun.
Why is a plant called a producer?
Plants produce their own food.
What is an organism?
Any living thing.
What does "interaction" mean?
When one thing affects another.
How is energy used by animals?
To grow, repair/heal, move around.
Where does a plant get its ENERGY from?
The Sun.
A producer makes it own_______ using ______.
Food. Sunlight.
The wolf eats the rabbit to gain energy.
How is energy used by plants?
To grow, grow fruit/vegetables, to repair.
Plants need these three things to grow.
Sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What is an organism called that eats other organisms for energy.
A consumer.
How does a plant and a rabbit interact?
The rabbit eats the plant to gain energy?
What does a food web show?
The flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What is it called when a plant produces its own food?
Photosynthesis.
What do decomposers do?
They break down dead organisms.
What does it mean when two species are interdependent?
The two species "help" or rely on one another.
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain.
A food web shows a set of connected food chains.
Sugar and oxygen.
When a decomposer breaks down a dead organism, what does it turn into?
Soil.
How are sharks and cleaner wrasse interdependent?
The cleaner wrasse cleans the shark's teeth and the shark protects the cleaner wrasse from being eaten.