Producers
What is a producer in a food chain/web?
An organism that makes it's own food using energy from the sun
What is a consumer in a food chain/web?
An organism that eats other organisms (plants and/or animals) for food
What is decomposer in a food chain/web?
An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste.
What is a predator?
An organism(s) that captures and eats another.
Is the sun apart of the food chain/web?
yes
Which is the producer?
grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk
grass
Which is the consumer?
grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk
grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk
Which of these is the example of a decomposer?
bacteria
What is a prey?
Animals that are eaten by other animals.
The flow of energy arrow points to _________.
The energy source (where they get their energy from)
Name two producers
grass and plants
How do consumers get their energy?
Their energy comes from what they consume (eat).
What travels through a food chain/web?
energy
What does an omnivore animal eat?
both plants and meat
What happens when you remove an organism from a food chain or web?
It spoils the flow of energy and nutrient in the ecosystem.
Which of these organisms is apart of the first level in a food chain?
Consumers
Decomposers
Producers
Prey
producers
What is the missing link in the food chain?
grass - _____ - hawk
rabbit
Which is the decomposer?
grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk, fungi
fungi
What would happen if one animal from a food chain were to die off?
Slowly other organisms in the food chain would die off also.
Where does the flow of energy begin?
the sun
Producers need _____, ____, and ____ to make their own food.
sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
Which of the following lists only consumers?
Hawks, lizards, chipmunks
Acorns, squirrels, rabbits
Grass, chipmunks, eagles
Mice, squirrels, grass
Hawks, lizards, chipmunks
What is the difference between a food web and food chain?
Food chain - only one single line of organisms eating one another
Food web - a network of lines of organisms
Which food chain correctly describes the flow of energy in an ecosystem?
Grass-->cow-->human
Caterpillar-->leaf-->human
Cow-->grass-->human
Leaf-->bird-->caterpillar
Grass-->cow-->human