Food Chains and Food Webs
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Cause and Effect
Questions about Ms. Butler
100
This is the original source of energy for most living things.
What is the sun?
100
From where does a carnivore get its energy?
From eating other animals.
100
The process by which plants make their own food, using sunlight, air, and water.
What is photosynthesis
100
What would be the effect on herbivores if all the producers in an ecosystem were to disappear?
All the herbivores would starve because they would not have a source of food energy.
100
What is Ms. Butler's favorite color?
What is green.
200
This is the first link on every food chain.
What is a producer?
200
A vole is an organism that eats only plants. What type of consumer is a vole?
An herbivore.
200
This is the result when two or more food chains overlap.
What is a food web.
200
How would the predators of a skunk be affected if the population of skunks were to disappear?
The predators would need to find another food source or they would starve.
200
What is Ms. Butler's favorite candy?
What is Sweedish Fish, Resse's Pieces, and Sour Patch Watermellons.
300
If a fox gets energy from a rabbit, which animal the prey?
What is the rabbit?
300
If a horned owl eats a skunk, what type of organism is the owl?
A carnivore
300
This is a tiny living thing that can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.
What is a microorganism.
300
How would all the prey of a skunk population be affected if all the skunks were to disappear?
The prey would become overpopulated because they are not being hunted.
300
What is Ms. Butler's favorite place to shop?
What is Target?
400
Using the terms producer and consumer describe how energy flows in a food chain.
The energy flows from the producer (a plant), to a consumer (an herbivore), to another consumer (a carnivore)
400
A raccoon is an omnivore, what does this mean?
The raccoon eats both animals and plants.
400
This is an organism that breaks down the remains of dead organisms.
What is a decomposer.
400
What would be the effect on an ecosystem is there was no sunlight.
The plant populations would be unable to go through the process of making food, which would cause all the organisms to die.
400
Where did Ms. Butler attend college?
What is UMass Amherst?
500
How is a food chain different from a food web?
A food chain shows one path of energy in an ecosystem, a food web is 2 or more food chains that overlap.
500
A raccoon is an omnivore that is commonly found in cities. Why do they choose to live there?
Because there are many trash barrels which contain meat and vegetables.
500
This is an animal that feeds on the remains or wastes of once living organisms.
What is a scavenger.
500
If humans caught all the salmon in an ocean ecosystem, how would that ecosystem be affected? (2 ways)
1. All the predators would need to find another food source. 2. All the prey would become overpopulated.
500
How many nieces and nephews does Ms. Butler have in total?
What is 4?
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