Food Chains
This is the name for a sequence showing how energy moves from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
A food web shows many overlapping ________ in an ecosystem.
What are food chains?
This is a community of living and nonliving things interacting in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
Animals that hunt other animals for food are called this.
What are predators?
When all parts of an ecosystem work together smoothly, it is called this.
What is balance?
This organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
If one species disappears, this can happen to the food web.
What is it becomes unbalanced or disrupted?
These are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem (like water, sunlight, soil).
What are abiotic factors?
Animals that are hunted and eaten by predators are called this.
What is prey?
This natural event can quickly change an ecosystem.
What is a natural disaster?
In a food chain: grass → rabbit → fox, this organism is the primary consumer.
What is the rabbit?
This term describes an animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
These are living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
This organism eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
If there are too many predators, this may happen to prey populations.
What is they decrease?
This is the original source of energy in most food chains.
What is the sun?
In a food web, arrows show this.
What is the direction of energy flow?
A forest, desert, and ocean are examples of this larger ecosystem type
What is a biome?
This level of consumer eats primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
This term describes how animals depend on each other for survival.
What is interdependence?
This organism breaks down dead plants and animals and returns nutrients to the soil.
This would most likely happen if all the producers in a food web disappeared.
What is consumers would lose their food source and populations would decrease?
This happens when organisms compete for limited resources like food or water.
What is competition?
This type of organism helps recycle nutrients by breaking down waste and dead matter.
What is a decomposer?
Removing one species from an ecosystem can cause this chain reaction.
What is a ripple effect (or domino effect)?