Food Chain 1
What is the definition of a producer?
A producer is the first link in a food chain. A producer is always a plant.
Give an example of a producer.
grass
What process makes it possible for plants to use energy from the sun to produce its own food?
Photosynthesis
What are herbivores?
Herbivores are animals that only eat plants.
What role do fungi, bacteria and worms play in the ecosystem.
They are all decomposers.
What is the definition of a decomposer?
A decomposer is an animal that gets its energy from "dead" organisms.
How do producers obtain their energy?
Producers obtain their energy by changing light energy into food energy in the process of photosynthesis.
What are the main products of photosynthesis?
Food and oxygen
What is a carnivore?
A carnivore is an animal that only eats meat.
What does all energy come from?
The Sun
Which part of a plant is responsible for making food for the plant?
leaves
What do we call it when animals are part of multiple connected food chains?
Food web
All plants are _______________.
What is an omnivore?
An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals.
_____________ is a mixture of decomposed dead material that makes soil rich with nutrients.
Compost
Name an organism that would most likely get its food energy only from consumers?
hawk, eagle,
What is the purpose of a decomposer in a food chain?
The purpose of a decomposer is to break down dead material.
Plants take in carbon dioxide and release _______.
oxygen
What is a second level consumer?
A second level consumer is one that eats the primary consumer.
When playing tag outside, how does food help a person as it runs and plays?
Food is providing the person with energy for motion
Contrast mushrooms and plants, thinking about the food chain.
mushrooms get energy from decomposing matter, but plants produce their own food.
What is the main importance of food chains?
transfer of energy
What are two things that go into photosynthesis and what are 2 things that are made?
In: Light energy, Water and Nutrients, Carbon Dioxide
Made: Food, Oxygen
What path does energy take in the food chain?
Energy goes from ____________ to ______________ to _______________.
Energy goes from producers to consumers to decomposers.
How would you explain how everyone depends on energy from the sun?
All animals eat either plants or other animals that eat plants.