Producers
Consumers
Producers, Consumers, Or Decomposers
Food Chain
100
Where do plants get their energy from?
The Sun
100
What do you call an organism that only eats plants?
Herbivore
100
People are part of food chains. What is the role of a person in a food chain?
Consumer
100
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
The flow/direction/path of energy in the food web.
200
What do producers do to get food?
Photosynthesis
200
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?
Omnivore
200
Amy is planting tomatoes and carrots in her garden. She notices that small insects like to eat her tomatoes and carrots just like she does. The small insects are examples of what?
Consumers
200
Grass → Grasshopper → Shrew → Hawk
Which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away?
Grasshopper
300
Name 3 things that a producer needs to make its own food. (Hint: Remember the equation for photosynthesis)
Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, and Water
300
When consumers breathe out what type of gas do they produce?
Carbon Dioxide
300
What would a mushroom would be classified as?
Decomposer
300
Grass → Zebra → Hyena → Lion
What would likely happen to the lion if the zebra population decreased?
The lion population will decrease.
400
Juan wants to grow a sunflower. He makes sure that the plant has the following items in order to grow: sunlight, water, other organisms, and air. Which of these items does the plant NOT need in order to grow?
other organisms
400
How do consumers get their energy?
They eat other organisms.
400
Which would be an example of a primary consumer?
Fox
Plant
Caterpillar
Caterpillar
400
Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl
Identify the tertiary consumer.
Owl
500
What do producers release that helps consumers breathe?
Oxygen
500
Identify the secondary consumer in this food chain:
Grass -> Cricket -> Shrew -> Hawk
Shrew
500
What organisms would experience a population decline with the loss of the rabbit?
Fox and Hawk
500
In the food chain Tree → Deer →Mountain Lion what would be the result if the tree population decreased due to a forest fire?
The deer and mountain lion populations would decrease