Food Chains
A living thing that makes its own food.
What is a producer
Plants get most of the matter they need to grow from
these two sources.
What are air and water?
Organisms that break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
Anything that has mass and takes up space; it moves
through ecosystems.
What is matter?
A community of organisms interacting with each other
and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
An Organism that gets its food by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer
The gas in air that supplies carbon matter used by
plants.
What is carbon dioxide?
The process in which dead material is broken down.
What is decomposition?
Matter moves between living things and the nonliving
What is environment?
A model showing many connected food chains.
What is a food web?
A model that shows who eats whom and how matter
moves between living things.
What is a food chain
The main source of energy that supports nearly every
food chain.
What is the Sun?
Two kinds of decomposers that help break down dead
matter.
What are fungi and bacteria?
When a salmon is eaten or decomposes, its matter can
eventually become part of another ____.
What is organism / living thing?
All food in an ecosystem can ultimately be traced back
to these organisms.
What are plants / producers?
An animal that hunts another animal for food.
What is a predator?
Evidence used in the plant-growth lesson to show that
plants gain matter.
What is an increase in weight (mass)?
Earthworms help release these back into the soil as
dead material breaks down.
What are nutrients?
Unlike energy, matter is repeatedly used again. We say
matter ____.
What is cycles?
This flows through food chains and originally comes
from the Sun.
What is energy?
If one species disappears, other organisms may
change because organisms are ____.
What is interconnected / dependent on one
another?
True or false: Most of a tree's new matter comes from
the soil.
What is false?
Decomposers are important because they help ____
matter instead of letting it disappear.
What is recycle?
Plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment
are all parts of this connected system.
What is an ecosystem?
Protecting an environment helps keep relationships
among organisms and resources in ____.
What is balance?