These animals get their energy by eating other living things.
What are consumers?
100
This type of animal hunts and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
100
These types of animals eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
100
This part of the energy pyramid is the largest.
What is the bottom?
200
This type of living thing gets its energy from the sun.
What is a producer?
200
The animals that predators eat are called _______.
What are prey?
200
These types of consumers eat only other animals.
What are carnivores?
200
The rabbits on an island became sick and die. This would likely cause the population of foxes (which eat the rabbits) to ______. (Hint: Increase or Decrease)
What is decrease?
300
Without this source of energy most living things would not survive.
What is the sun?
300
These types of animals are not food for any other animals. (i.e. lions, polar bears, alligators)
What is a top predator?
300
The first link in a food chain is the producers (or plants), the second link is primary consumers (or herbivores), the third link is this type of consumer.
What is secondary?
300
Most primary consumers are ________.
What are herbivores?
400
Producers make their own food by using the sun's energy to combine, water, soil, nutrients, and gas in the air. This process is called __________.
What is photosynthesis?
400
This species of animal is the highest top predator.
What are humans?
400
This living thing can connect the top of a food chain back to the bottom when a top predator dies.
What is a decomposer?
400
A complex web of relationships between living things is called this.