Greater Destiny's Food Chain

Producers

100

What is a producer

An organism that makes its own food

200

Name 2 producers found in Jamaica?

Possible answers:

• Callaloo

• Corn

• Grass

• Sugar cane

300

grass -> grasshopper -> frog -> snake

who is the producer in the above food chain?

grass

Consumers

100

What is a consumer?

animals the eat producers or other animals to get energy.

200

Name the types of consumers and give a short description of each.

• Herbivores are ‘plants eaters’ that get their energy and nutrients from plants.
• Carnivores are ‘meat eaters’, they are consumers that eat only animals to get nutrients for energy and growth.
• Omnivores are consumers that eat both producers and other consumers.
• decomposers such as fungi and bacteria are consumers that break down the body parts of dead organisms.

300

Mrs. Campbell is a human that eats only plants, what type of consumer is she? (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore)

Omnivore

Energy Flow

100

What does the arrow in a food chain show?

Direction of energy flow.

200

In the chain Grass → Goat → Human, energy flows from ____ to ____. who gets the least amount of energy in the food chain and why?

Grass to Goat to Human. The human gets the least amount of energy because energy is lost in the food chain

300

Why must producers always be at the start of the food chain?

They make their own food; without them, energy cannot flow to consumers

What happens if?

100

What happens if all the plants (producers) in Jamaica disappear?

Herbivores die, carnivores and humans lose food, food chain collapses

200

what happens if the grasshopper is removed from this chain: Callaloo → Grasshopper → Lizard → Small bird.

the lizard population would decrease and so would the population of the small bird.

300

what happens if the Small bird is removed from this chain: Callaloo → Grasshopper → Lizard → Small bird

 Lizard population may increase; grasshopper population may decrease; energy flow is disrupted