Producers
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
Animals that eat plants are called this
What are herbivores?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
A simple model that shows how energy moves from one organisms to another.
What is a food chain?
The original source of energy for most ecosystem.
What is the Sun?
The process plants use to convert sunlight into energy
What is photosynthesis?
Animals that eat other animals are called this
What are carnivores?
Name one example of a decomposer.
What is Fungi/bacteria/worms?
A complex model showing many many feeding relationships.
What is a food web?
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What is A U S T T I N?
Without producers, this will happen to all consumers
What is they would die?
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
Decomposer return this back to the soil.
What are nutrients?
Arrows in a food chain point in this direction.
What is Toward where energy is flowing?
The group of organisms that always get the most energy.
Producers
This is the term for an organism that only eats dead organisms, like a vulture.
What is scavenger.
What do we call a living thing that must eat other living things for food.
What is a consumer?
What is dead matter/waste?
Why is a food web more accurate than a food chain.
What is because more organisms are included / or more detailed?
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Terms for living and non-living.
What is biotic and abiotic?
This is the name given to the consumer that sit at the end of the food chain
What is an apex predator.
Explain how decomposers keep energy flowing in ecosystems.
They recycle matter so producers can grow?
A food web cannot exist without.
What is the SUN!
Explain why energy decreases at higher trophic levels
What is because energy is lost at each step?