Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers 2
Food webs/Food chains
Who Am I?
Miscellaneous
100
Living things that make their own food are known as
What is a producer?
100

How do consumers get the energy they need in order to survive?

What is by eating other organisms?

100

A diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organisms to another in a linear pattern.

What is a food chain?

100

I am the chef for the ecosystem because I am the only organism that can make my own food. Who am I?

What is producer?

100
What do the arrows represent in a food chain or food web?

The direction energy is flowing from.

200

Name five examples of producers.

What is trees, bushes, grass, ferns, flowers, etc.

200

What are the four kinds of consumers?

What is herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and scavengers?

200

A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.

What is food web?

200

I am Mother Nature's recycler because I take dead things and turn them back into soil. Who am I?

What is decomposer?

200

An organism that eats all or part of another organisms is called a _______________________ and an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism is called a ____________________.

What is a predator and a prey.

300

Explain the importance of decomposers in an ecosystem.

What is decomposers are nature's recyclers.

300

Consumers known as omnivores eat _________________

What is both plants and animals?

300
A diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy.
What is an energy pyramid?
300

I am considered to be a greedy consumer. I like to eat both plants and animals. Who am I?

What is an omnivore?

300
What happens if an organism is removed from an ecosystem?
What is the ecosystem will eventually be negatively affected.
400
_______________ are omnivores that eat dead plants and animals.
What is scavengers?
400
Organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms are called _____________________.
What is decomposers?
400
Form a food chain using the following organisms: snake, grass, eagle, mouse
What is grass, mouse, snake, eagle?
400

Bears eat fish, insects, plants, seeds, nuts and young elk. They are called __________.

What is an omnivore?

400

When two or more individuals or populations try to use the same resource, it is called _________________________.

What is competition?

500

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.

500
Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called _________________. They do this by using a process called ______________________.
What is producers and photosynthesis?
500

Why are producers located at the bottom of an energy pyramid?

Producers get their energy directly from the sunlight so they have the most energy.

500

Humans eat beef, bacon, strawberries, broccoli, potatoes and many other foods. We are considered to be ________.

What is omnivore?

500

What is the overall energy source in an ecosystem?

What is the sun?

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