Producers & Consumers
This type of organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
These organisms recycle matter back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
This is the process by which plants make food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
Energy moves through an ecosystem from…
What is producers → consumers → decomposers?
Something you can observe in an ecosystem to show matter movement.
What is a food chain diagram or a decomposing log?
Animals that eat producers for energy are called…
What are primary consumers?
A common decomposer you might see in compost.
What is a worm or mushroom?
Plants take in these two things from air and water to make food.
What are carbon dioxide and water?
The arrows in a food chain show…
What is the flow of energy and matter?
A way scientists show how energy flows in an ecosystem.
What is flow charts or arrows on diagrams?
Consumers that eat other consumers are called…
What are secondary consumers?
Decomposers break down dead organisms to release…
What are nutrients and matter?
The green pigment that helps plants capture sunlight is called…
What is chlorophyll?
What happens to energy as it moves up a food chain?
What is energy decreases at each level?
Evidence that a predator eats prey can include…
What is scat, footprints, or stomach contents?
The role of producers in a food chain is to…
What is provide energy and matter for consumers?
Without decomposers, this would happen in ecosystems.
What is matter would pile up and nutrients wouldn’t return to soil?
Photosynthesis produces this type of sugar for plants.
What is glucose?
Matter is recycled in ecosystems by…
What is decomposers returning nutrients to soil?
Evidence that matter is recycled includes…
What is compost, decaying plants, or soil nutrients?
Give an example of a consumer eating a producer.
What is a rabbit eating grass?
Name one way decomposers help plants.
What is recycling nutrients into the soil for plant growth?
In addition to sugar, photosynthesis releases this gas into the air.
What is oxygen?
Give an example of how energy flows from the sun to a tertiary consumer.
What is sun → grass → rabbit → fox → hawk?
Give one example of evidence showing producers, consumers, and decomposers interact.
What is a pond ecosystem showing algae (producer), fish (consumer), and bacteria/worms (decomposers)?