Vocab
Animals that eat ONLY plants.
Herbivores
A food chain passes ________ from one living thing to another.
energy
Food webs are made from _________ __________ that overlap
food chains
make a food chain with the following: -mouse -snake -seeds -hawk
seeds - mouse - snake - hawk
All plants get their energy from the _____.
sun
Animals that eat ONLY other animals
carnivores
A food chain ALWAYS begins with__________
producer
True/False - on a food pyramid, as you go up the population of the consumer decreases?
True
A food chain consists of a radish, mouse, and cat. Which organism is the secondary consumer?
cat
An organism that gets its energy from consuming other organisms.
Consumer
Animals like Coyotes and vultures are called ___________ which feed on bodies of dead organisms
scavengers
The thing that eats the producer.
primary consumer
All food webs start with _____________
producers
A food chain consist of a lichen, artic hare, artic fox, and polar bear. Which would be the primary consumer?
artic hare
A carnivore that hunts other animals
predator
All living things need _______ to gain energy.
food
A food web is like a spider web, all things are connected...What happens when a part of it is pulled out or broken?
it falls apart
if an organisms contains 1,000 and is consumed. How any calories are available to the organism in the next trophic level?
100
What do Producers give off that every living thing needs.
Oxygen
An animal that a predator hunts is called
prey
What is at the end of the food chain that breaks down dead and decaying organisms.
decomposers
What type of living thing would be found at the TOP of a food web?
a predator - or an omnivore/ carnivore
What do all of these living things have in common? deer, rabbit, squirrel
herbivores, Consumers