Producers
What are living things that make their own food using sunlight?
What are producers?
What do we call animals that eat plants?
What are herbivores?
What organisms break down dead plants and animals?
What are decomposers?
What is the source of energy for all food chains?
What is sunlight?
What can cause a change in an ecosystem?
What is natural events or human activities?
Name one example of a producer in a forest ecosystem?
What is a tree?
Name an animal that is a consumer in a food web
Any animal
Name one type of decomposer
Answer may vary.
In a food chain, what comes after producers?
What are consumers?
What is an example of a living factor that can change an ecosystem?
What is the introduction of a new species?
How do plants obtain energy from the sun?
What is through photosynthesis?
How do consumers depend on producers?
They rely on them for food.
How do decomposers help the ecosystem?
By recycling nutrients back into the soil
How does energy flow through a food web?
What is from producers to consumers to decomposers?
How can a drought affect an ecosystem?
What is it reduces water availability for plants and animals?
What role do producers play in the food chain?
What is providing energy for consumers?
What happens to consumers if producers disappear?
They may not survive.
What would happen to the ecosystem without decomposers?
What is a food chain?
What is a sequence that shows how energy moves from one organism to another?
Describe a scenario where the extinction of a species impacts an ecosystem.
What is if a predator goes extinct, the population of its prey may increase rapidly?
Describe how producers contribute to the ecosystem.
They provide food and oxygen for other organisms.
Explain the role of consumers in energy transfer in a food chain.
They obtain energy by eating producers or other consumers.
Describe the relationship between decomposers and soil health.
Decomposers enrich the soil with nutrients.
Explain how energy is lost at each level of a food chain.
What is energy is lost as heat and through metabolic processes?
How do changes in plant populations affect energy flow in an ecosystem?
What is fewer plants mean less energy for consumers?