Vocabulary
An organism that only eats other animals
What is a carnivore?
An organisms unable to make their own food so it eats plants or other animals.
What is a consumer?
Consider this food chain: grass=> grasshopper=> mouse => snake Which organism is an herbivore?
What is the grasshopper?
An organism that uses energy from the sun through photosynthesis to produce food
What is a producer?
An organism that breaks down, organic material such as the remains of dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
these organisms (animals and insects) eat primary producers
What is the primary consumer?
Consider this food chain: blackberries=> bird=> cat Which organism is the carnivore?
What is the cat?
An organism that feeds on plants and fungus
What is an herbivore?
Organisms that eat Primary consumers
What is a secondary consumer?
A group of food chains within an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Consider this food chain: acorns=> squirrels=> hawks Which of these is the producer?
What are the acorns?
An organism that eats both plant and animals
What is an omnivore?
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
The order in which organisms, or living things, depend on each other for food
What is a food chain?
Consider this food chain: acorns=> squirrels=> hawks Which of these is the secondary consumer?
What is a hawk?
An organism that obtains its nutrition by eating primary consumers and secondary consumers
What is a tertiary consumer?
non-living physical and chemical elements in the ecosystem.
What is an abiotic?
A tertiary consumer is also called (hint: Simba in the Lion King)
What is a Top Predator?
Consider this food chain: phytoplankton=> shrimp => seals=> Killer whale Which of these is the Tertiary Consumer?
What is the killer whale?