Systems
Food Chains
Types of consumers
Energy
100

A group of parts that interact to create an object or a purpose.

What is a system? 

100

Organisms that make their own food.

What is a producer? 

100

A consumer that eats only other animals and meats.

What is a carnivore? 

100
Starts at the sun and moves through entire food webs and food chains.

What is energy? 

200

Smaller systems within a larger system

What is a subsystem? 

200

Organisms that break down dead plants and animals into simple chemicals. 

What is a decomposer? 

200

Consumers that only eat plants.

What are herbivores? 

200

The direction the arrow points in a food web or food chain.

Towards the predator - where the energy flows? 

300

A system that is made up of individual parts

What is a simple system? 

300

Organisms that eat other organisms.

What are consumers? 

300

Consumers that eat both plants and animals?

What is an omnivore? 

300

Energy is gained through this.

What is food? 

What is sunlight? 

400

A community of organisms interacting with one another and with nonliving factors in the area. 

What is an ecosystem? 

400

The following are all: _________ 

Grass

Blueberries

Algae

What are producers? 

400

What kind of consumer eats only producers?

What is a primary consumer? 

What is a herbivore? 

400

When drawing energy in a food chain or food web the illustrator must include.

What is the sun and rain? 

500

A system that is made up of subsystems. 

What is a complex system? 

500

A hawk is an example of what type of consumer?

What is a top or tertiary consumer? 

500

Type of consumer that eats animals and also gets eaten by animals.

What is a secondary consumer? 

500

The ability to do work.

What is energy?