Producers
What is a producer?
All different types of plants
What is a primary consumer?
An animal that eats plants
What is an ecosystem?
A geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, work together to form a bubble of life
What is photosynthesis?
The process plants go through to create their own food
What is a decomposer?
It eats up any dead material
List three different producers you could find in your backyard.
Trees, grass, bushes, etc
When a primary consumer eats a plant, how does it get its energy?
The energy from that plant moves into the animal it is eaten from
What is a herbivore?
An animal that feeds on plants.
Name all of the inputs in photosynthesis?
Water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide
What does rot mean?
To decay due to the action of fungi or bacteria
Are humans producers?
No
why is a primary consumer important in the ecosystem?
They help in the transfer of energy within an ecosystem, without which an ecosystem can lose its balance and collapse
What are the common characteristics of all living things?
Environmental responses, cells, change and growth and a reproductive system
Name all the output in photosynthesis?
Suger/glucose and oxygen
Why are decomposers important to the ecosystem?
They break apart dead organisms into simpler inorganic materials
How does a producer makes its food and make energy?
It uses photosynthesis
What does a primary consumer eat?
Plants or algae
What is the diffrence betwenn a food web and a food chain?
A food web is a network of food chains
What is the purpose of photosyntheies?
To transform water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide into oxygen, and sugar/glucose
How does a decomposer get its energy?
When any animal dies a decomposer comes to decompose the dead material
Why is a producer so important in an ecosystem?
They make food for other organisms
In the following food chain, which is a primary consumer?
Grass-->Bunny -->Coyote-->mushroom
Bunny
What is a Omnivore?
What three atoms make up a water molecule?
2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom
What would happen if decomposers never existed?
Dead plants and animals would remain as such, and their elements would never be returned to the soil, air and water