Energy
An organism that makes their own food from sunlight.
What is a producer?
A food chain is a representation of a ___ ___ in which nutrients are passed on from one living organism to another.
What is single pathway? (also relationship/connection)
Food webs are made from multiple overlapping ___ ___
What are food chains? (multiple pathways)
A food chain with a mouse, snake, grass, hawk
What is grass - mouse - snake - hawk?
The process in which energy is made by plants
What is photosynthesis?
Animals that need to eat to live
What are consumers? (herbivores & carnivores)
The type of organism a food chain ALWAYS begins with
What is a producer? (plants)
All food webs start with this.
What are producers?
A group of organisms arranged in order of who eats who.
What is a food chain? (or food web!)
Organisms that eat bodies of dead organisms.
What are scavengers?
Something all living things need and get from food.
What is energy?
All green plants (producers) get their energy from this
What is the sun?
True or False: Plants are necessary for life on Earth.
What is True?
Something that shows how ALL the animals in a COMMUNITY get their energy (food)
What is a food web
Imagine that pollution caused all the plants in an aquatic food chain to die. TRUE OR FALSE: This would affect the population of the largest fish.
What is true?
Organisms that eat plants or other organisms
What are omnivores?
The order that the types of organisms usually appear. (Put these in order: consumer, producer, consumer, decomposer)
What is producer, consumer, consumer, decomposer?
This makes food webs and food chains different.
Answers may vary - Webs are more complex.
These organisms break down dead matter and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
Clams, mussels, shrimp, crabs, bacteria, and tube worms live off this for food.
What are microbes?
Another word for apex predators
What are top consumers?
Living thing would be found at the TOP of a food chain?
What is a predator? - or an omnivore/carnivore
organisms that eat producers
What are primary consumers?
A model that represents the movement of energy that occurs in an ecosystem.
What is a Food Web? (also food chain!)
"Purpose of ___": shows the predator/prey relationships between organisms
What is the purpose of a food chain? (also food web)