Vocab
Plants who make their own food are called
What are producers?
Animals that ONLY eat plants
What are herbivores?
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
What is energy?
Food webs are made from _____ _____ that overlap
What are food chains?
Nebraska and Kansas are examples of this ecosystem
grasslands
All organisms need food to give them
What is energy?
What are omnivores?
Which animal would be the MOST affected afterward if a forest fire burned all the grass away?
sun -> grass -> grasshopper -> bird
What is grasshopper?
Which direction do the arrows flow in a food web?
They follow energy - from prey to predator
Arizona would be an example of this type of ecosystem
desert
Organisms that need to eat to live are called
What are consumers?
Animals that ONLY eat other animals
What are carnivores?
A food chain always begins with
What is a producer?
What happens when you remove a producer from its ecosystem?
A chain reaction occurs - all predators populations fluctuate and skew the populations of others
racoons, bears, bobcats and eagles are likely to be a part of this ecosystem
forest
The prefix for "auto" means ...
what is self?
a mouse would be an example of
a primary consumer
Which would be an example of a primary consumer? A fox, plant, or a caterpillar?
What is a caterpillar?
falcons, lions, polar bears are all examples of
Tertiary consumers
All of our coastal states would be considered what ecosystem
marine/ aquatic
An organism that recycles dead organisms into chemical nutrients used in soil, air, and water is...
What is a decomposer?
An organism that a predator hunts
What is a prey?
A consumer can be either three of these things
What is a herbivore, carnivore, or a omnivore?
A snake has 2 prey: The mouse and the bird. The snake also has 3 predators: The fox, the hawk, and the badger. How many arrows would point AWAY from the snake in a food web?
3
this is the only ecosystem with very little producers
tundra