Producer Consumers and Decomposers
What are the three type of consumers?
Herbivores: eat only plants for energy
Carnivores: eat only other animals for energy
Omnivores: eat both plants and animals for energy
What do the arrows in a food chain/web represent?
The flow of energy.
Define inherited trait.
physical characteristics of organisms that are passed from parents to offspring.
Explain the carbon dioxide and oxygen cycle.
Plants exhale oxygen and animals inhale carbon dioxide.
The living and non living things that interact with an environment.
What does a decomposer do?
Break down dead organisms and waste. Return nutrients back to the soil which can be used again by producers.
What does a food chain show?
Food chains show how energy flows from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
Give an example of an inherited trait.
Various characteristics like eye color, height, fur color, flower shape and tongue rolling are traits that organisms inherit from their parent.
What are the stages in incomplete metamorphosis.
Egg, Nymph and Adult.
Define a community.
The living part of an ecosystem; all the different organisms that interact.
Vultures are scavengers, what is a scavenger?
Animals that eat dead or decaying organisms.
What does a food web show?
It shows the relationship between many different food chains in a single ecosystem.
What is an instinct?
A behavior that an organism inherits from its parents.
What are the stages in complete metamorphosis?
Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Define population.
How do producers make their own food?
They capture the Sun's energy to make their own food/energy by a process called photosynthesis.
What is the difference between predators and prey?
Predators are animals that hunt other animals for food and prey are the animals that the predators hunt and eat.
Define learned behavior.
A behavior that an organisms learns from parents or from experience.
Define nymph.
The second stage in incomplete metamorphosis during which and insect eats and grows and resembles a smaller version of the adult.
Define habitat.
The home or place where the organisms live.
Melanie looked out her window and spotted a squirrel, a tree, mushrooms, mold on a rock, and a dog. Did she spot any decomposers?
Yes.
The mushrooms and the mold.
In the food chain below which organism(s) is a not a consumer?
grass -> grasshopper -> snake -> hawk -> fungi
The grass and the fungi are not consumers.
True or false.
Hibernation and migration are instincts of some organisms.
True
Diego loves collecting insects and has the following: a monarch butterfly, a hissing roach, a grasshopper, a cricket, and a darkling beetle. From his collection which ones go through complete metamorphosis and which ones go through incomplete metamorphosis?
Complete metamorphosis: the monarch butterfly and the darkling beetle.
Incomplete metamorphosis: the hissing roach, the grasshopper, and the cricket.
What is the habitat for earthworms?
Soil