Producers
Consumers
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

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

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

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

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
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