Food Chains, Predators, Herbivores & Carnivores
An animal that eats other animals for food.
What is a carnivore?
Trees eat soil. True or false.
What is false?
A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animal materials.
What is a decomposer?
They use carbon dioxide and release oxygen, include plants, algae, and phytoplankton. They also make their own food, rather than eating other living things.
What are producers?
Use these words to correctly show the flow of energy through a food web.
consumers decomposers producers
What is producers → consumers → decomposers?
An animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
Tiny openings on the underside of leaves where it sucks in air that it needs for its food.
What are stomata?
A substance needed by an organism for health and growth.
What are nutrients?
They break down waste and dead material into nutrients for plants.
What are decomposers?
Plants prey on worms (True or False)?
False
An animal that eats both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
Mushrooms, mold, and fungi.
What are decomposers?
A way to describe which animal eats other organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
____________ take in carbon dioxide, but ____________ release carbon dioxide.
What are plants……………...………………………………. decomposers and consumers?
What is the name of the process in which a plant makes its own food?
photosynthesis
When you go “down” the food chain by continuing to ask “What does it eat?” at what category of living things do you always end up?
What is plants (producers)?
Worms are the ONLY kind of decomposers. True or false.
A model that shows how food chains connect and overlap.
What is a food web?
You have to clean a fish tank but not a pond because...
What is a fish tank doesn’t have decomposers or plants like a pond does?
Why are producers called "producers"?
They make, or produce, their own food.
Several food chains are linked to each other.
What is a food web?
Plants get their energy from the _____.
Sun
A community of living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions.
What is an ecosystem?
An ____________ includes all living things (producers, consumers, decomposers) in an area, and their nonliving environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Explain how the arrows work in a food chain/web
The arrows show the path of energy transfer from one organism to another.