Producers
Give an example of a producer.
Any plant!
Give an example of a consumer.
Any animal!
What is in the biosphere?
Living things!
What is at the bottom/start of any food web or chain?
Producers!
Where do producers get their energy from?
The sun!
Where do consumers get their energy from?
Eating other living things!
Where do decomposers get their energy from?
Eating dead stuff!
What is in the hydrosphere?
All the water!
Where do arrows point in food webs and chains?
Where the energy is flowing or to what is eating!
Where are producers in food chains?
At the beginning!
What kind of consumers eats only meat?
What happens to the dead stuff when decomposers interact with it?
It breaks down into soil!
What is in the geosphere?
All the land!
Why are plants at the bottom/start of a food chain or web?
Because they don't eat anything, they make their energy from the sun!
Because they haven't botany.
What kind of consumer eats only plants?
Herbivore!
What do we call the process when we put worms in with the dead stuff?
Composting!
What is in the atmosphere?
All the gasses surrounding the Earth!
What will eventually eat everything in a food chain or web?
Decomposers! They eat dead stuff!
What do we call the process of producers making energy?
Photosynthesis!
What kind of consumer eats both plants an animals?
Omnivore!
What is the scientific name for mushrooms?
Fungi!
How might the atmosphere affect the biosphere?
Droughts, hurricanes, tornados can all kill living things.
Why are dolphins important for food chains?
Life needs a porpoise.