Food Chains/ Webs
What is the order of a food chain?
Sun, producers, consumers, decomposers
What is Climate?
Climate is the weather of an area for long periods of time.
What is a producer?
A living thing that makes it's own food using energy from the sun.
Give me an example of a decomposer
Mushroom, worms, bacteria, mold
What does extinct mean?
No more of
- If an animal goes extinct, there are none left in the world.
Out of this food chain; Sun, bunny, wolf, fungus.
Which one is the decomposer?
Fungus
What would cause the most harm adding into a lake or river?
Adding chemicals or polluting
True or false: There can only be one type of consumer
False
Bonus: What are the names of different consumers?
Why is a tree a producer but a mushroom is a decomposer?
Trees are able to make their own food and nutrients while mushrooms cannot produce their own.
If there were wild rabbits that lived in Jones County. What would make the population decrease?
Introducing new consumers (other animals that eat rabbits) into the area.
Create a food chain!
Answers Vary
What are some of the different ecosystems we've learned about?
Tundra, Ocean, Forests, Grasslands Deserts
True or False: All consumers must eat plants to get energy.
False
Why?
A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals and waste into the ground again.
Where do producers get their energy from?
The SUN!
What is the difference between a food chain and web?
A food chain follows ONE single path
A food web is CONNECTED with multiple types of food chains (more than one food chain)
What is an ecosystem?
Out of this list which organisms can NOT make their own food?
Algae, Frog, Fish, Otter, Lotus flower
Frogs, Fish, and Otters
Why are decomposers important to our ecosystems?
They give back nutrients into the ecosystems.
If foxes depend on mice as a food source.What would happen if the population of mice decreased?
The population of foxes would decrease.
What do the arrows mean in a food chain or web?
What is a habitat?
A place where an organism lives; habitats supply organisms with food, water, and shelter.
Is a Venus flytrap a producer or a consumer since it catches bugs but also has green leaves?
They're BOTH!
What would our world look like if there were no decomposers in the ecosystem?
Answers Vary.
What would happen to all the grasshoppers if all the snakes disappeared from that environment?
The number of grasshoppers would increase.