Parts of Food Chain
What is a consumer
Any organism that eats plants or animals
Bad Weather Means
Less Food and Less Population
What is a herbivore
Only eats producers such as plants
organisms that eat the dead plants or animals and use the energy for their own survival
List two Herbivores
Deer, Turtle, Squirrel, Beetle, Rabbit, Snail
What is a producer
(Ex. Plants)
An organism that creates its own food
Good Weather Means
Bigger Population and Better Food
What is a carnivore
Only eats other animals (Meat)
What is a decomposer
Eat dead plant and animal material, break it down into basic elements and molecules
List Two Carnivores
Wolf, Hawk, Fox, Snake, Frog
What is a food chain
The flow of energy from one organism to another
What is Carrying Capacity
The maximum population an area can support
What is an omnivore
organism that eats plants and animals
What physical Law makes decomposition so necessary
Law of Conservation of Mass
Main Source of energy for all food chains
The Sun
Primary Consumer Eats??
First Consumer (Herbivore and Omnivore)
Producers
What is a Population
The number of a particular species in a given area
What does a scavenger eat
Eats dead plants and animals
The Law of Conservation of Mass
Matter cannot be created or destroyed by any natural means, it can only change form.
What is a food web
Many interconnected food chains in an ecosystem
Secondary Consumer Eats??
Primary Consumers
What is an ecosystem
All living and nonliving things in an environment
Nearly all Food Chains begin with...
Green Plants!
Why is Decomposition so important
All of the elements necessary for plant and animal life would be stuck in dead plants and animals
All animals were __________ in God’s original creation
Genesis 1:29-30
Herbivores!