Types Of Eaters
These organisms make their own food through photosynthesis.
What are producers (plants)?
These organisms are found at the beginning or bottom of a food web.
What are plants or producers?
We eat food to give us this.
What is energy?
These organisms eat dead organisms and break down their bodies into nutrients for plants.
What are decomposers?
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These organisms have to eat other organisms (plants or animals) to get energy and building blocks.
What are consumers?
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This is a nutrient found in food that gives us energy.
What are carbohydrates, fats, and/or sugars?
This is the type of mouth that a sea lamprey has.
What is a mouth without jaws?
The light we need to see things originally comes from this.
What is the sun?
These are consumers who eat ONLY meat.
What are carnivores?
Nothing eats the fox, so it is called a ________.
What is an apex predator?
These nutirents are found in food and don't give us energy, but they help our body to stay healthy.
What are vitamins?
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Ms. Laurier has this kind of animal for a pet.
What are cats and/or a gecko?
These are consumers who eat ONLY plants.
What are herbivores?
This is the main food source for aquatic snails.
What is alges?
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The sea lamprey are not originally from the Great Lakes ecosystem. That makes them what kind of species?
What are invasive species?
This is the state that Ms. Johnson lives in.
What is Georgia?
Plants produced C6H12O6 through photosynthesis. This is known as _____.
What is glucose (sugar)?
If there were no more mallard ducks, this would happen to the raccoons.
What is there would be fewer of them because they would have less food.
These tell you how many units of energy are in food.
HINT: An adult needs about 2,000 of these each day.
What are calories?
Three examples of decomposers are ______.
What are:
worms, bacteria, beetles, flies, vultures, fungi
This is the percentage of the total eclipse that we will see on Monday.
What is 90%!