Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Living things that make their own food are known as
What is a producer?
How do consumers get the energy they need in order to survive?
What is by eating other organisms?
A diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organisms to another.
What is a food chain?
True or false. We live in an ecosystem
What is TRUE.
There are 5 different types of consumers.
FALSE. There are only 3
Name five examples of producers.
What is trees, bushes, grass, plants, flowers, etc.
What are the three kinds of consumers?
What is herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
Define an ecosystem.
A community of organisms that have living and non living factors.
A grasshopper is an producer.
What is false. It is a CONSUMER. It eats grass!
Explain the importance of decomposers in an ecosystem.
What is decomposers are nature's recyclers.
Consumers known as omnivores eat _________________
What is both plants and animals?
Answers may vary
What is an example of an abitotic factor of an ecosystem?
What is water, temperature, soil, air. The NON LIVING factors.
An herbivore ONLY eats plants.
What is TRUE
_______________ are omnivores that eat dead plants and animals.
What is scavengers?
Organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms are called _____________________.
What is decomposers?
Form a food chain using the following organisms: snake, grass, eagle, mouse
What is grass, mouse, snake, eagle?
What are 3 biotic factors of an ecosystem?
What is animals, plants, bacteria. Any LIVING thing!
A lion is a omnivore.
What is FALSE. Lions are CARNIVORES because they only eat meat!
Describe how producers, consumers, and decomposers are linked in a food chain.
Consumers feed on producers and other consumers. Decomposers feed on producers and other consumers after they are dead.
Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called _________________.
What are producers?
Describe the flow of energy in a food chain.
The direction of the arrow shows the direction of the flow of energy. (Ex. from the grass to the bug to the bird)
Biotic: Fish, seaweed, sharks, etc.
Abiotic, ocean water, sand, wind, rocks, etc.
What is TRUE