Producers
What do producers use to make their own food?
Sunlight
What type of consumer eats only plants?
Herbivore
Name one example of a decomposer.
Mushroom, Worm, or Bacteria
What is the ultimate source of energy for a food web?
Sun
A diagram that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem is called a…
Food Web
Name a common producer in a forest ecosystem.
Grass or Trees.
What type of consumer eats only meat?
Carnivore
What is the main role of decomposers?
Break down dead matter and recycle nutrients
Energy moves through a food web from…
Sun → Producers → Consumers → Decomposers
A single path of energy from one organism to another is called a…
Food chain
Producers are also called...
Autotrophs
What do we call an organism that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
How do decomposers help the soil?
They return nutrients to the soil for plants
What do arrows in a food web show?
The direction energy flows
The organisms at the top of the food chain are called…
Why are producers essential to all food webs?
They provide energy for all other organisms.
In a food chain, what do consumers get energy from?
Producers or other consumers
True or False: Decomposers eat live plants.
False
What would happen if the producers in a food web disappeared?
Consumers would have no energy and populations would decline
The role an organism plays in its ecosystem is called its…
Niche