How Do Plants Get Food? (page 1)
π΄ What colour are the plants that soak up light energy from the Sun and use it to make food?
Green
π‘ How do animals get food?
They eat food
π΅ What is the first link in a food chain?
Producers, plants, etc
π’ What are predators?
Animals that hunt and eat other animals
π΄ Lions, orcas, alligators, and polar _____ are all top predators.
B-E-A-R-S
π’ How do plants get food?
They make their own food
π΄ What do herbivores eat?
Only plants
π‘ What is one example of a producer?
Flowers, grass, trees, leaves, etc
π΅ What is the name of animals that get eaten by predators?
Prey
π’ Producers, like green plants, make their ____ food.
O-W-N
π΅ What is the process called that plants use to make food?
Photosynthesis
π’ What do carnivores eat?
Other animals, bugs, fish, etc
π΄ What is one example of a herbivore?
Deer, rabbit, grasshopper, elephant, etc
π‘ What is the name for predators that are not food for any other animals? (they have no enemies)
Top predators
π΅ You will learn how one living thing depends on another and that all living things ______ on the Sun's energy.
D-E-P-E-N-D
π‘ What are two (2) things plants make during photosynthesis?
Sugar (food) and oxygen
π΅ What do omnivores eat?
All living things: plants and animals
π’ What is one example of a carnivore?
Tigers, wolves, foxes, spiders, some bats, penguins, bald eagles, etc
π΄ Name three (3) things that can be part of an ecosystem.
Producers, predators, prey, animals, air, water, plants, etc.
π‘ At the top of the food chain are animals that are not food for ______ other animals.
A-N-Y
π΄ What are three (3) things plants need for photosynthesis?
Sunlight, water and carbon dioxide
π‘ What is the difference between producers and consumers?
Producers make their own food for energy.
Consumers eat food for energy.
π΅ What do food chains show?
1. How one living thing depends on another living thing for food
2. How energy and matter move from producers to consumers
π’ What is an ecosystem?
Living and nonliving things that affect/change each other
π΄ The process that plants use to turn sunlight into food and energy.
P-H-O-T-O-S-Y-N-T-H-E-S-I-S