Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
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 straight line.
What is a food chain?
Saving our natural resources is doing this?
What is conserving or conservation?
The relationship where only one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasite/host?
Name five examples of producers.
What is trees, bushes, grass, ferns, flowers, etc.
What are the three kinds of consumers?
What is herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
A more complex diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
A resource that is so scarce that it limits the size of a population is called a ______________________
What is a limiting factor?
An organism that hunts other 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.
Explain the importance of decomposers in an ecosystem.
What is decomposers break down dead plant and animal matter?
Consumers known as omnivores eat _________________
What is both plants and animals?
This is the source of all energy in a food chain or food web.
What is the sun?
The largest population that an environment can support is known as the ____________________.
What is carrying capacity?
This would happen if deer were removed from a population.
What is the ecosystem will eventually be negatively affected, such as animals that eat deer would look for other prey, or plants that deer usually eat would grow out of control.
_______________ 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, sun, mouse
What is sun, grass, mouse, snake, eagle?
Are consumers found at the top or bottom of an energy pyramid? Explain your answer.
What is the top? Because they will either eat the producers, or other organisms that eat producers.
When two or more individuals or populations try to use the same resource, it is called _________________________.
What is competition?
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 is producers?
Why are producers located at the bottom of an energy pyramid?
Producers get their energy from the sunlight to make their own food.
These are some limiting factors in an environment.
What are space, shelter, food, water, etc?
Give an example of a parasite and host relationship.
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