Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
How 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?
A species of producer in our pond ecosystem.
Answer must be relevant (moss, algae, tree etc.)
What is the Sun?
The category of organisms that are considered producers.
What are plants?
List two of the three kinds of consumers.
What are herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between most organisms in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
List two decomposers in our pond ecosystem.
Answer must be relevant (turtle, catfish, etc.)
An organism that eats all or part of another organisms is called a _______________________ and an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism is called a ____________________.
What is a predator and a prey.
The importance of decomposers in an ecosystem.
What is decomposers are nature's recyclers/ breakdown waste?
Consumers known as omnivores eat _________________
What is both plants and animals?
The meaning behind the arrows in a food chain or food web.
What is energy flow?
List two herbivores in our pond ecosystem.
Answers must be relevant (pond snail, tadpole, etc.)
If a Blue Heron which preys on fish, is removed from our pond ecosystem, What will happen to the fish in our ecosystem?
What is the fish population will increase?
_______________ are omnivores that eat dead plants and animals.
What are scavengers?
Organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms are called _____________________.
What is decomposers?
Form a food chain using the following organisms: snake, grass, eagle, mouse
What is grass, mouse, snake, eagle?
List two carnivores in our pond ecosystem.
Answers must be relevant (Bass, Racoon, etc.)
If we removed all of the bluegill, what would change about the population of insects vs. the population of Blue Herons.
What is the insect population will increase and the Blue Heron population will decrease?
Describe how producers, consumers, and decomposers are linked in a food chain.
Answers may variy but must connect producers to being eaten by consumers, and decomposers recyling or breaking down dead producers and consumers.
Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called _________________. They do this by using a process called ______________________.
What is producers and photosynthesis?
The reason producers located at the bottom of an energy pyramid or food chain.
Producers get their energy from the sunlight.
List two apex predators in our pond ecosystem.
Answers must be relevant (Human, Heron, etc.)
This is the cetegory of organisms that if removed from an ecosystem, would cause a total ecosystem collapse.
What is producers?