Food Webs
A system of transferring energy that is more complex than the food chain.
Food Web
True/False: All energy in the food web starts from the sun.
True
Organisms that eat dead things.
Decomposers
What plants breathe out and we breathe in.
Oxygen
A model that shows how energy flows between living things.
Food Chain
Organisms that create food from sunlight.
Producers
Bacteria and fungi.
Decomposers
What we breathe out and plants breathe in?
Carbon Dioxide
A diagram that show us what eats what in an ecosystem.
Food Chain
The process that plants use to turn sunlight into nourishment/energy.
Photosynthesis
Organisms that consume producers.
Consumers, Herbivores, Omnivores
The only living thing that produces its' own food.
Plants
Animals that are eaten by predators.
Prey
The source of all life on earth.
Sun
The part of the food chain occupied by the fiercest predators.
Top/Peak/Apex
Organisms that eat primary consumers or herbivores.
A meat eater.
Carnivore
Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
Predators
All plants are this.
Producers
What would happen if we had more consumers than producers?
The consumers would starve, and the food chain would collapse.
Organisms that eat both producers and primary consumers.
Omnivores
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
The power needed to stay alive and do anything, such as work.
Energy
All animals are this.
Consumers