Energy Flow
Is a living thing that must eat food to get energy.
What is a consumer?
Shows the flow of energy and matter in an ecosystem from a producer to one or more consumers.
What is the food chain?
A type of decomposer.
What are fungi?
A human being is one of these.
What is an omnivore?
Makes its own food.
What is a producer?
The primary source of matter and energy in most food chains.
What are plants?
Most of these are helpful.
What are bacteria?
Carnivores store some of the energy transferred from animals they eat.
What is how energy flows?
Animals that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
Plants are producers and mice are these types of consumers.
What are primary consumers
One benefit of decomposers.
What is they add nutrients to the soil?
Sunlight provides this for most of the ecosystems on Earth.
What is energy?
How all living and nonliving things in an environment interact.
What is an ecosystem?
Shows that the flow of energy in an ecosystem branches out through many paths.
What is a food web?
A living thing too small to see without a microscope.
What are microorganisms?
These breakdown wastes and dead plant/animal material.
What are decomposers?
How plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
An animal that hunts other animals.
What are predators?
Plants eat up all the nutrients in the soil causing plants to die.
What is without decomposers?
Warm temperatures, oxygen, and moisture speed up this process.
What is decay?
Eats Both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
An important part of the food web.
What are decomposers?
Insects and worms are called this.
What are scavengers?
Penicillium is a type of this.
What is a fungus?
Animals that get energy from eating other animals.
What is a carnivore?
This animal eats grass and then is eaten by a hawk to make a complete food chain.
What is a mouse?
Scavengers feed on these.
What are the remains of dead animals?
Alexander Fleming discovered that penicillium mold produced this.
What is an antibiotic?