Vocab Part 1
This is a type of organism that makes its own food
Producer
This is an animal that only eats plants.
Herbivore
In a food chain, energy usually starts with this.
Sun
If a predator population increases, what might happen to prey?
prey will decrease
If soil does not have enough nutrients, plants may grow ______.
weak / unhealthy
This organism eats producers like plants.
Primary Consumer
This is an animal that hunts and eats other animals.
Predator
In grass → rabbit → fox, the rabbit is this type of consumer.
Primary Consumer
If many rabbits disappear from an ecosystem, what might happen to foxes?
Foxes will decrease
When plants and animals die, they break down and become part of the ______.
Soil
This is an organism that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
This is a diagram that shows one path of energy.
Food Chain
Put these in order: hawk, grass, mouse
grass → mouse → hawk
If a plant population increases, what might happen to herbivores?
Herbivores increase
Animals cannot make their own food, so they are called _____.
consumers
This is an animal that gets hunted and eaten by other animals
Prey
This means a nonliving part of the environment
Abiotic
In grass → grasshopper → frog → snake, the frog is this.
Secondary Consumer
If a new predator is added to an ecosystem, what might happen to the existing predators that eat the same prey?
Predators decrease because they now have more competition for the same food
In a food chain, energy moves from producers to consumers. This movement is called the ______ of energy.
flow
This type of organism is at the top of the energy pyramid.
Tertiary Consumer
This is a community of living and nonliving things that interact
Ecosystem
Why are producers important in a food chain?
1. They provide food for the animals.
2. They are the first part of the food chain.
3. The rest of the food chain can't survive without them.
If producers cannot grow well because soil lacks nutrients, what happens to the rest of the food chain?
Plants go through the process of _____ to make food.
photosynthesis