How Do Plants Get Food? (page 1)
🔴 What colour are the plants that soak up light energy from the Sun and use it to make food?
Green
🟡 How do animals get food?
They eat food
🔵 What is the first link in a food chain?
Producers, plants, etc
🟢 What are predators?
Animals that hunt and eat other animals
🔴 Lions, orcas, alligators, and polar _____ are all top predators.
B-E-A-R-S
🟢 How do plants get food?
They make their own food
🔴 What do herbivores eat?
Only plants
🟡 What is one example of a producer?
Flowers, grass, trees, leaves, etc
🔵 What is the name of animals that get eaten by predators?
Prey
🟢 Producers, like green plants, make their ____ food.
O-W-N
🔵 What is the process called that plants use to make food?
Photosynthesis
🟢 What do carnivores eat?
Other animals, bugs, fish, etc
🔴 What is one example of a herbivore?
Deer, rabbit, grasshopper, elephant, etc
🟡 What is the name for predators that are not food for any other animals? (they have no enemies)
Top predators
🔵 You will learn how one living thing depends on another and that all living things ______ on the Sun's energy.
D-E-P-E-N-D
🟡 What are two (2) things plants make during photosynthesis?
Sugar (food) and oxygen
🔵 What do omnivores eat?
All living things: plants and animals
🟢 What is one example of a carnivore?
Tigers, wolves, foxes, spiders, some bats, penguins, bald eagles, etc
🔴 Name three (3) things that can be part of an ecosystem.
Producers, predators, prey, animals, air, water, plants, etc.
🟡 At the top of the food chain are animals that are not food for ______ other animals.
A-N-Y
🔴 What are three (3) things plants need for photosynthesis?
Sunlight, water and carbon dioxide
🟡 What is the difference between producers and consumers?
Producers make their own food for energy.
Consumers eat food for energy.
🔵 What do food chains show?
1. How one living thing depends on another living thing for food
2. How energy and matter move from producers to consumers
🟢 What is an ecosystem?
Living and nonliving things that affect/change each other
🔴 The process that plants use to turn sunlight into food and energy.
P-H-O-T-O-S-Y-N-T-H-E-S-I-S