Producers
What is a producer?
They are living things that make their own food.
What are consumers?
They are living things that obtain their food from other living things
What is a scavenger?
It feeds on the remains of dead animals. Vultures are scavengers.
What is a food chain?
Food chains show how living things feed on other living things in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A food web is made up of many food chains joined together and interconnected.
Name an example of a producer in a terrestrial environment.
A plant.
What is a primary consumer?
They feed on producers, so they are herbivores.
What are decomposers?
They are microorganisms and fungi that break down dead animal and plant materials.
Look at page 48 in your book. Which living things are the producers in this ecosystem?
The producers in this ecosystem are grass.
What do food webs always start with?
They always start with producers.
Name an example of a producer in an aquatic ecosystem.
Algae
What is a secondary consumer?
They feed on primary consumers, so they are carnivores.
How does a decomposer break down dead animal and plant materials?
It decomposes them into minerals, which return to the soil and are then used by producers.
Look at page 48 in your book. What are the primary consumers in this food chain?
The primary consumers are rabbits.
Look at the picture on page 49. Which living things are the producers in this ecosystem?
The producers in this ecosystem are plankton.
What is an example of a producer in a forest?
What are tertiary consumers?
They feed on scavengers, so they are also carnivores.
Give 2 examples of decomposers
Bacteria and mushrooms
Look at page 48 in your book. What are the secondary consumers in this food chain?
The foxes are the secondary consumer.
Which are the primary consumers on page 49?
Krill are the primary consumers
Give an example of a primary consumer, a secondary consumer and a tertiary consumer.
Primary consumer-Rabbits eat plants
Secondary consumer-Foxes eat rabbits
Tertiary consumer-Eagles eat foxes
Look at the food chain on page 48 in your book. If there was a tertiary consumer, what would it be?
An eagle, who would eat the fox.
Name a secondary and a tertiary consumer on page 49.
A crab eater seal is a secondary consumer
A killer whale is a tertiary consumer