Key Terms
Animals that eat producers
Consumers
Define the term Interdependence
Interdependence is when living things depend on each other to survive.
Plants do not need animals to survive
FALSE
Plants need animals to survive
Animals that hunts and kills other animals
Predator
How does an animal depend on a plant to survive? Give three ways
Animals depend on plants for food, oxygen, shelter etc
Animals need plants for protection
TRUE
Some animals need plants for protection from predators
Leaf > Caterpillar > __________ > Eagle
Fill in the blank space with the correct living thing to complete the food chain
A small bird
A predator at the top of a food chain
What is Apex Predator?
How does a plant depend on an animal to survive? Give one way
Plants depend on animals for pollination and seed dispersal
Plant > Grasshopper > Frog > Fish > Hawk
The plant is the Apex Predator in this food chain
FALSE
The plant is the producer in the food chain, and the apex predator is the hawk
An organism that completes this food chain: ________> rabbit > fox
Grass
The path of energy passing through one living thing to another. It also shows which living things are eaten by other living things
A Food Chain
What if all the trees disappeared, what would happen to the humans and animals?
The humans would die and some animals would not have any food supply or homes to survive.
A Secondary Consumer is the first animal in the food chain that eats the producer
FALSE
The secondary consumer is the second animal in the food chain that eats the primary consumer.
Organisms that are eaten by other animals
A Prey
What are two types of consumers in a food chain?
Primary and Secondary Consumers
In an energy pyramid about 90% of the energy transferred from one level to the next is released as ______.
What is heat and waste?
The arrows in a food chain shows the direction of the energy flow going from the living thing that is eaten towards the living thing that eats it.
TRUE
The energy in a food chain starts with this.
The Sun