Producers
Producers are unique because they use sunlight to do this.
What is make their own food/energy?
Primary consumers eat this.
What are plants?
Secondary consumers eat this.
What is meat?
Apex predators usually eat this.
What are secondary consumers?
This type of decomposer is often mistaken for a plant.
What is a fungus?
Some pine trees need this in order for their seeds to grow.
What is fire?
Primary consumers are also called this.
What is an herbivore?
This is another term for a secondary consumer.
What is a predator?
This apex predator is one of the fastest birds in the world, scooping up its prey at speeds of over 200 mph. To eat, it has to be faster than its prey!
What is a peregrine falcon?
While this kind of animal also eats things that are already dead, it is actually considered a secondary consumer.
What is a scavenger?
This part of a producer helps to prevent erosion.
What are the roots?
The eyes of most primary consumers are found here.
Bonus: Explain
What is the side of the head?
Of the options below, this is a secondary consumer:
Spider, Squirrel, Beaver
What is a spider?
This apex predator can sneak silently through the skies with wings adapted to be stealthy.
What is an owl?
Decomposers eat this level of the food chain.
What is all of them?
In order for producers to survive, they need these three things.
What are sunlight, water, and nutrients? (Photosynthesis components also acceptable)
Of these animals, this one is a primary consumer:
Dolphin, Elephant, Egret
What is an elephant?
If an animal is able to be both a primary and secondary consumer, it can be called this.
What is an omnivore?
This is the largest terrestrial carnivore. It can reach lengths of ten feet and 1500 pounds. Their dense, water resistant coat makes them good swimmers, but their habitat is shrinking due to global warming.
What is a polar bear?
This decomposer is both found everywhere on earth, even in the human body, and is too small to see.
Bonus: Being too small to see is called this.
What is bacteria?
Bonus: What is microscopic?
What is a symbiotic relationship? (Mutualism is a also acceptable)
In the food chain grass -> grasshopper -> frog -> snake -> hawk, what is the primary consumer?
What is the grasshopper?
If the number of secondary consumers increase, the number of primary consumers will do this.
What is decrease?
This animal is the largest living lizard, weighting in at 300 pounds and reaching 10 feet in length. It's the only apex predator in its habitat, which is a small portion of Indonesia.
What is a Komodo Dragon?
The largest decomposer is found in Oregon and covers an area of about 4 square miles. It is this type of organism (living thing). Fun Fact: it is also though to be between 4000 and 8000 years old, which would make it one of the oldest living organisms on earth.
What is a fungus? It is a honey mushroom.