Consumers
Food Chains
Producers
Predator & Prey
Decomposers & Misc.
100
A consumer is a living thing that gets its energy by ______________________.
What is eating other living things as food?
100
A triangular diagram that shows how energy is used in a food chain is called an ______________________.
What is an energy pyramid?
100
A producer is a living thing that __________________________.
What is makes its own food?
100
An animal that hunts another animal for food is called a ________________________.
What is a predator?
100
A decomposer is a living thing that ____________________ for food.
What is breaks down dead things?
200
A carnivore gets its food by eating _____________.
What is other animals?
200
A food chain shows the path of _____________ from one living thing to another.
What is food?
200
Name the producer in this food chain. sun-grass-rabbit-fox
What is grass?
200
A hawk is a predator. What is its prey?
What is a mouse, snake, or smaller birds?
200
Name two examples of organisms that are decomposers.
What is bacteria, mushrooms, toadstools, and earthworms?
300
What would a herbivore eat?
What is berries, grass, fruit, flowers, plants, etc.?
300
Tell the order of these organisms in a food chain and explain why. shrimp shark fish plankton
What is plankton, shrimp, fish, and shark because plankton is a producer? Then, the shrimp would eat the plankton. The fish would eat the shrimp. Last, the shark would eat the fish.
300
What would happen if all the producers on Earth died?
What is consumers would die too because they can't make their own food? They need producers to make food for them.
300
What are two ways that a prey might use to hide from its predator?
What is squirting ink & hiding behind it or using camouflage to blend in with its surroundings?
300
What is the name given to overlapping food chains?
What is a food web?
400
What is the name for a consumer that eats only plants?
What is an herbivore?
400
In this food chain: grass-grasshopper-birds-bobcat What would happen if the birds became extinct?
What is there would be an increase in the grasshopper population since there would be no birds eating them and there would be a decrease in the bobcat population since they would lose a food source?
400
How might a food web change if a new plant/producer were added?
What is the new plant might crowd out other plants?
500
A grizzly bear is an example of which type of consumer?
What is an omnivore?
500
Since you eat several different things, you are part of many food chains. Tell about a food chain that includes one of the foods that you ate today.
Correct answer will vary.