Producers
This is the definition of producer.
What is a living thing that makes its own food, using non-living matter from the environment and energy from the sun.
This is the definition of consumer.
What is a living thing that eats other living things?
This is the definition of decomposer.
What is a living thing that breaks down dead living things for its nutrition?
This is the definition of adaptation.
What is a body part or behavior that helps a living thing to survive and reproduce?
The process in which plants use sunlight, water, and air to make their own food?
What is photosynthesis?
The chemical materials that plants use to carry out photosynthesis.
Animals need to eat food for this reason.
What is to obtain energy and matter?
This is where the nutrients broken down by decomposers return to.
What is the soil?
When comparing this body part, you would notice that herbivores tend to have flat ones and carnivores tend to have sharp ones.
What are teeth?
This is the source for all energy used by living things on earth.
What is the sun?
The energy source plants use to carry out photosynthesis.
What is sunlight?
The main types of animal consumers.
What are herbivores and carnivores?
These are single celled organisms that break down dead plants and animals by secreting chemicals that make the chemicals of the dead thing break apart into simpler substances.
What are bacteria?
What is omnivore?
This is the correct order for these pieces in a food chain: snake, grass, mouse, hawk, sun.
What is sun, grass, mouse, snake, hawk?
The chemical "food" plants produce that allows them to grow, repair themselves, and reproduce.
What is glucose?
This is what herbivores, or primary consumers, eat.
What are plants?
Mold, mildew, and mushrooms are examples of these decomposers.
What are fungi?
Although we often list it as something plants need, many plants, such as waterlilies and air plants, are adapted to live without this substrate.
What is soil?
When these are removed from an ecosystem, overpopulation of herbivores can often lead to problems like overgrazing and damage to plant species.
What are predators?
The byproduct of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
This is what carnivores, or secondary consumers, eat.
What is meat?
Organisms such as earthworms, termites, millipedes, and sea cucumbers, that eat decaying matter like leaf litter and marine snow are called this.
What are detritivores?
The green chemical called chlorophyl is what allows plants to carry out photosynthesis. Many plants have broad green leaves that allow them to catch as much sunlight as possible. However, broad green leaves would freeze in the winter and kill the plant. Many plants have adapted by losing their leaves in the winter. Others, such as pines and spruces, have evolved these small, waxy, and cold tolerant chlorophyl containers instead.
What are needles?
While decomposers are the main way that nutrients are returned to the soil, animals also return nutrients to the soil through this process, which also includes bacteria.
What is digesting food and pooping?