Producers and Consumers
Living things that make their own food are known as
What is a producer?
How do consumers get the energy they need in order to survive?
What is by eating other organisms?
A diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organisms to another.
What is a food chain?
There are 5 different types of consumers.
FALSE. There are only 3
Name three examples of producers.
What is trees, bushes, grass, plants, flowers, etc.
What are the three kinds of consumers?
What is herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
When the owl eats a rabbit, what is the role of the owl in the food chain?
consumer
A grasshopper is an producer.
What is false. It is a CONSUMER. It eats grass!
_______________ are omnivores that eat dead plants and animals.
What is scavengers?
Consumers known as omnivores eat _________________
What is both plants and animals?
Create a food chain with 1 producer and 2 consumers
Answers may vary
An herbivore ONLY eats plants.
What is TRUE
Describe how producers, consumers, and decomposers are linked in a food chain.
Consumers feed on producers and other consumers. Decomposers feed on producers and other consumers after they are dead.
Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called _________________. They do this by using a process called ______________________.
What is producers and photosynthesis?
Form a food chain using the following organisms: snake, grass, eagle, mouse
What is grass, mouse, snake, eagle?
A lion is a omnivore.
What is FALSE. Lions are CARNIVORES because they only eat meat!
Food provides animals with the materials and energy they need for growth, warmth, and motion. Plants get material for growth mostly from air and water, and obtain energy from sunlight. Producers provide food to consumers because ___.
animals cannot produce their own food
What are organisms that use other organisms for food in order to gain energy?
consumers
Describe the flow of energy in a food chain.
The direction of the arrow shows the direction of the flow of energy. (Ex. from the grass to the bug to the bird)
What is TRUE