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Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Niches
Potent Potables
100
These leafy organisms produce acorns eaten by forest animals.
What are oak trees?
100
Consumers cannot do this.
What is make their own food?
100
The appetizing menu for a decomposer is made up of dishes prepared with these ingredients.
What are dead organisms or waste material?
100
This group of organisms includes animals that feed upon dead animals (i.e., vulture).
What are scavengers?
100
This level in a food chain or web has the most amount of energy.
What is the producer level?
200
This common organism fills most of the ground in temperate areas, including your backyard.
What is grass?
200
A type of consumer that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
200
The primary decomposer that exists in all biomes, including your gut.
What is bacteria?
200
This group of consumers is made up of organisms that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
200
The "mouth" of an arrow in a food chain should always open towards this party in the eating sequence.
What is the organism being eaten?
300
This all important ability determines whether an organism is a producer, consumer, or decomposer.
What is the ability to make their own food?
300
Yogi Bear may be smarter than the average bear, but he still shares this dietary classification.
What is an omnivore?
300
Even this group of organisms that are found at the top of every food chain will someday be broken down by decomposers.
What are predators?
300
This group of consumers is made up of organisms that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
300
Name 2 land biomes.
What are tropical rainforest, deciduous forest, grassland, taiga, desert, tundra?
400
This type of producer loses its leaves in the Fall and grows new ones in the Spring.
What is a deciduous tree?
400
The lives of consumers would not be able to continue if not for this other group of organisms.
What are producers?
400
This type of decomposer can be a very enjoyable fellow with which to spend time.
What is fungi?
400
This type of consumer hunts and kills other animals for food.
What is a predator?
400
Name 2 aquatic biomes.
What are rivers, lakes, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, deep sea?
500
This producer is a tasty treat for aquatic life, but is slimy to the touch and can make humans sick.
What is algae?
500
Name 5 species of consumers.
What are... (various answers).
500
These chemicals are the result of a decomposer's work, and are used by producers to help make food for themselves and other organisms.
What are nutrients?
500
This type of consumer feeds on producers or other consumers, but can also find itself being fed upon by predators.
What is prey?
500
Tell the steps of energy transfer through a food chain/web from start to finish.
What is producers to consumers, and then consumers to decomposers?