Producer
What is a producer?
Producers make their own food.
What is a consumer?
Consumers do not make their own food. They eat other organisms such as producers and other consumers.
What is a decomposer?
Decomposers absorb nutrients from dead organisms like dead plants and animals.
What is the first link in a food chain?
What is a producer?
Give one example of a producer.
Grass, tree, or flower.
What are the three kinds of consumers?
What is herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
How do decomposers help plants grow?
They return nutrients to the soil that plants need.
Where does the energy in a food chain originally come from?
The sun
What process do producers use to make their own food
Photosynthesis
How do consumers get the energy the energy they need to survive?
What is by eating other organisms?
How are decomposers different from consumers?
Consumers eat living things, but decomposers feed on dead things.
Why are producers the first part of a food chain?
They provide energy for all other organisms.
What do we call a consumer that eats both plants and animals?
What is an Omnivore?
How do decomposers help keep the environment clean?
They break down waste and dead material, preventing buildup and pollution in nature.
What would happen if producers disappeared from an ecosystem?
The rest of the food chain would collapse because there’d be no source of energy.
What might happen to a food chain if a main consumer species disappeared?
The population of the producer might increase, and animals that eat that consumer could run out of food.
Explain how decomposers, producers, and consumers all depend on each other.
Producers make food, consumers eat producers and other animals, and decomposers break down what’s left and return nutrients to the soil so new producers can grow. It’s a full circle of life!!