Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Write the difference between abiotic and biotic factors?
What is abiotic factors are non-living things like water, soil, wind and biotic factors are living things like plants, animals, etc?
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 in a linear pattern.
What is a food chain?
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?
The direction energy is flowing from.
Name three examples of decomposers.
What is mold, yeast, bacteria, mushrooms, fungi etc.
What are the four kinds of consumers?
What is herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and scavengers?
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
I am Mother Nature's recycler because I take dead things and turn them back into soil. Who am I?
What is decomposer?
As one goes up an energy pyramid, the amount of energy available ___________ and population sizes _______.
What is decrease and decrease?
Identify the role of decomposers in an ecosystem.
What is they break down dead material and return nutrients to the soil.
Consumers known as omnivores eat _________________
What is both plants and animals?
In a marine food chain, small fish eat plankton, big fish eat small fish, and sharks eat big fish. Which organism has the smallest population?
I am considered to be a greedy consumer. I like to eat both plants and animals. Who am I?
What is an omnivore?
Producers can be called ________ while consumers can be called ____________.
What is autotrophs and heterotrophs?
In an aquarium fish eat the shrimp, and a shark eats the fish. What would happen to the population of shrimp if the shark was removed from the aquarium?
a. decrease b. increase c. stay the same
What is decrease?
Form a food chain using the following organisms: snake, grass, eagle, mouse
What is grass, mouse, snake, eagle?
Bears eat fish, insects, plants, seeds, nuts and young elk. They are called __________.
What is an omnivore?
If you made a chart showing all the organisms living in the local lake, with arrows drawn between the various organisms showing the direction or pathway of energy flow, what kind of chart would you have made?
What is food web?
Three organisms on a food web have arrows pointing away from them and no arrows pointing toward them. What can you infer about these organisms?
a. They are omnivores. c. They are decomposers.
b. They are herbivores. d. They are producers.
d. They are producers..
Virtually all plants are autotrophic. But there are no autotrophic animals or fungi. What can you infer about autotrophic organisms?
a. the can move around on their own
b. they are at the top of the food chain
c. the reproduce slowly
d. they can make their own energy
What is d. they can make their own energy?
If an organism is located at the top of an energy pyramid, they receive the _______ amount of energy and they have the ______ population.
What is least/smallest;smallest/lowest?
List the levels of the environment in order from largest to smallest.
What is biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, organisms?
How much energy is lost when organisms eat other organisms? How much energy is gained?
What is 90%; 10%?