The Food Chain
Earthworms
Main Course
Ecosystems
Just About Everything
100
Grass and plants that get their energy from the sun and make their own food.
What are producers?
100
These are the tiny little hairs that cover the earthworm's body to help is grip the soil.
What is setae?
100
This animal gets hunted down and eaten by other animals.
What is prey?
100
An ecosystem that has trees.
What is a forest?
100
Living and nonliving things.
What is an organism
200
This is an example of a ____________.
What is a consumer?
200
This flap covers the mouth of the earthworm and helps it find its way through the earth.
What is the prostomium?
200
This animal hunts down and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
200
A lake, a prairie, and a fish tank are examples of this type of community of organisms.
What is an ecosystem.
200
This is why you need to clean a fish tank and not a pond.
Because the pond has natural decomposers to clean out the waste and dead plants/animals.
300
This is an example of...
What is a decomposer?
300
Worms help the earth in these two ways.
What is digging tunnels, returning nutrients to soil?
300
These animals eat meat only.
What are carnivores?
300
In this pond ecosystem, this uses sunlight to produce its own food.
What are the water weeds?
300
Plants get their energy from this.
What is the sun?
400
Worm, mushroom, bacteria are all examples of this
What is a decomposer?
400
Worms survive on these.
What are decomposed (dead) plants and animals?
400
Organisms that get energy from eating producers and consumers.
What is a consumer?
400
A community of interacting animals and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
400
A complex version of the food chain, showing relationships and interactions between organisms.
What is the food web?
500
Decomposers break down dead animals and plants into this
What is nutrients and chemicals. (soil)
500
Latin word that means "mushroom"
What is fungus
500
These get their nutrients from eating meat and plants.
What are omnivores?
500
Decaying plants and animals are important to an ecosystem because they do this.
What is return nutrients to the soil?
500
The arrows on a food web serve this purpose
shows the direction the energy moves to