This type of consumer eats only plants. An example would be a rabbit.
What is a herbivore?
100
The name for an animal that gets hunted by another animal for food.
What is prey?
100
This is the term that shows the path of food from one living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
100
Out of the following: grass, snakes, mice and frogs, this type of food is the kind a herbivore would eat.
What is grass?
100
This term describes the place in the ecosystem where the animals live and take shelter.
What is a habitat?
200
This type of consumer eats only meat. An example would be a cheetah.
What is a carnivore?
200
These animals hunt other animals for food.
What is a predator?
200
This term describes overlapping food chains, meaning that animals do not always have to eat one or two things to live in an ecosystem to survive.
What are food webs?
200
Out of the following: insects, snakes, seals and monkeys, this is the living thing that a polar bear would eat.
What are seals?
200
This term describes the number of living organisms that are all the same and living/working together in the same area.
What is a population?
300
This type of consumer breaks down dead plants and animals for food. An example is a mushroom or vulture.
What is a decomposer?
300
Out of these four living organisms: koala, grass, wolf and wildebeests, this is the name of the animal that could be considered as prey for an alligator in Africa.
What is a wildebeest?
300
The name of the diagram that shows how energy is used in a food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
300
Plants make their own delicious food by using sunlight during this process.
What is photosynthesis?
300
In a rainforest ecosystem, there are four parts. These include the forest floor, the understory, the canopy, and this other layer.
What is the emergent layer?
400
This consumer group is the one most humans belong to.
What is the omnivore group?
400
This is the name for the type of animal that is at the top of the energy pyramid.
What is a predator?
400
Possible lunch for a bunny rabbit would be one of the following: bears, snakes, insects, or clover.
What is clover?
400
Many plants and animals are losing their home, or this type of place to live and grow in an ecosystem due to man interfering with the natural environment.
What is a habitat?
500
In a food chain with: the sun, the grass, a rabbit, and a fox, this is the organism that makes it's own food by getting energy from the sun.
What is the grass?
500
A carnivore eats so many herbivores that the population of producers begins to grow out of control. Name the term that describes that the population of herbivores is going down.
What is decrease?
500
Energy transfers to these types of plants or animals that break things down for food even though what they are eating is no longer alive.
What are decomposers?
500
A shark has the choice of eating many different animals, including fish, octopus, seals, and plankton because many food chains overlap to form this term in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
500
The rainforest is sometimes described as this term, because it gives so much oxygen to our planet.