Vocabulary
To make the body well again.
What is body repair?
What do the arrows in a food chain represent?
The direction the energy moves/energy flow.
Why is the Sun's energy important for life on Earth?
The Sun heats the Earth to make it livable. It also provides energy for plants to grow, and ecosystems couldn't function without plants.
A diagram that shows the transfer of energy in one straight line is a...
Food chain
An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals.
Consumer
Thing that is needed to do work or change something.
What is energy?
All the energy that is passed up the food chain started out as...
Sunlight
Why do plants need energy from the Sun?
To grow and create their own food.
A food web is...
an interconnected set of food chains.
Organisms that break down the remains of dead plants or animals without need for internal digestion.
Decomposers
An increase in size, abundance, or complexity.
What is growth?
What can a human consume to gain energy?
Plants or animals
Why do animals need energy from the Sun?
To grow, move, and do other life functions.
What belongs in the first blank of the diagram below?
_______ ---> plants ---> animals
The Sun
An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy.
Producer
How an object moves from one place to another.
What is motion?
What do both plants and animals use energy to do?
Grow
The process by which plants make food requires water, carbon dioxide, and...
Energy from the Sun.
Using the terms below, make a food chain.
Producers
Sun
Consumers
Decomposers
Sun ---> Producers ---> Consumers ---> Decomposers
What role do humans play in the food web?
Consumers
An interconnected set of food chains.
What is a food web?
Plants are different from animals because...
Plants don't have to consume other living organisms to get energy.
How does the energy we get from food relate to the sun?
The food web starts with the sun providing energy to the plants. Even if we don't eat a lot of plants, some of the animals we eat rely on the plants to survive. Without it, the organisms in the food web would slowly die out due to lack of food.
Draw a food chain with the following organisms. Don't forget to use arrows properly to represent the flow of energy.
Coyote, Deer, Grass, Mountain Lion
Grass ---> Deer ---> Coyote ---> Mountain Lion
Label each organism in the food chain below as a producer, consumer, or decomposer.
Sun ---> Grass ---> Gazelle ---> Lion ---> Bacteria
Grass-Producer
Gazelle-Consumer
Lion-Consumer
Bacteria-Decomposer