Lesson 3
a consumer that eats other animals (example: owl)
carnivore
Not all animals eat the same kind of ____.
foods
Animals depend on _____ and other animals to get the energy they need.
plants
animals that predators hunt
prey
Animals within a food web depend on each other for _______.
If one part of a food web is disrupted or done away with, the entire web will be ______.
survival
changed
a consumer that eats both plants and other animals (example: flying squirrel)
omnivore
grouped by the types of food they eat (herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores)
consumers
break down dead plants and animals into minerals and nutrients that can be used by producers.
decomposers
all the food chains in a community
food webs
____, ______, and other natural disasters can change the population size of organisms in a food web which disrupts the entire food web.
storms and fires
an animal that eats dead animals (example: vulture)
scavenger
All living things need what to survive?
energy
a natural fertilizer made of dead plant parts that is rich in minerals
compost
An ecosystem has many _______.
ecosystems
What are 2 ways that people can change ecosystems and disrupt food webs?
spraying pesticides and polluting water
a consumer that puts materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air, and water (example: earthworm)
decomposer
Plants get the energy they need by trapping ______.
sunlight
the flow of energy through a community
food chain
All the food chains connected in an ecosystem make up a _______.
food web
decreases the population of certain kinds of fish which are food for other fish and can disrupt ocean food webs
overfishing
must eat other organisms to get the energy they need
consumers
Animals _________ use light energy to make sugar.
cannot
an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
predator
True or False: Organisms can be part of more than one food chain.
True
changes food webs by removing trees which provide shelter for certain animals.
deforestation