Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Food Web
Wild Card
100
What is a producer?
A plant. 
100
What is the difference between a carnivore and herbivore?
Carnivores only eat meat. Herbivores only eat plants.
100
What is a decomposer?
An organism that breaks down dead material.
100

sun ➔ grass ➔ caterpillar ➔ snake ➔ hawk


Name the producer in this food chain.

Grass.
100
Where do all plants and animals get the energy they need?
The sun.
200
Where do Producers get there energy from?
The sun.
200
What is an omnivore?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
200
What is the decomposer that humans and animals can eat?
Mushrooms
200

sun ➔ grass ➔ caterpillar ➔ snake ➔ hawk


Name the primary consumer in this food chain.

Caterpillar
200
Food webs are made up of many of these.
Food chains.
300
Give 3 examples of producers.
(ex: grass, flowers, trees, leaves, fruit, lettuce)
300
What is a primary consumers role in a food chain?
They eat producers.
300
What are 3 examples of decomposers?
Worms, mushrooms, insects, bacteria.
300

Give me an example of a food chain with 4 levels 

 ex: ___ --> ___ -->___ -->___

Any food chain with a correct: producer --> consumer --> consumer --> consumer

300
Why are food webs more useful than food chain?
Because food webs show more relationships and patterns between animals. They give more information.
400
What is an animal called when they only eat producers?
Herbivore. 
400
What is the role of secondary consumers?
They eat primary consumers.
400

If producers make their own food and consumers eat others, decomposers...

Break down dead material.
400

What do the arrows mean in a food web and food chain?

Ex:  ex: Grass --> Rabbit --> Snake --> Hawk 

The arrows show the path of energy.
400
Explain what could happen to a pond food web if all of the frogs suddenly died. 
The food web would die out because there would be an increase in bugs which would eat all the plants and starve the other organisms. 
500
What would happen to a food web if the producers died out?
The other animals would die out, because there would be no food.
500
What is a tertiary consumers role in a food chain?
They eat secondary consumers.
500
What do decomposers help when they break down dead material?
When they break down dead material, they put nutrients back into the soil.
500
What is an animal that may be used many times in a food web?
Hawk, snake, wolf, shark, etc. 
500
How are food webs different from food chains? 
Food chains only show one path of energy, while food wens show many food chains at once.