Consumer, Producer, or Decomposer?
Ecosystem Matrix
Vocabulary
Living Things
Food webs
100

I eat grass.

Consumer

100

1 Deer

Organism

100
Smallest unit of life

cell

100

List the four things that all organisms NEED:

Food, water, shelter, space

100

Identify a producer, consumer, and decomposer from this food web. 

Producer: grass,

Consumer: Any animal

Decomposer: none

200

I absorb nutrients from dead organic matter.

Decomposer
200

A herd of Elk

Population

200

Autotroph

A.K.A a Producer, Makes its own food

200

List 2 Characteristics of Living Things:

Can be any two of the following: 

Grow, Reproduce, Respond to Stimuli, Require Energy, Maintain Homeostasis, or Organized into groups

200

List three errors made when constructing this food web.

1. Sun not listed as the ultimate source of energy.

2. Energy stops with top consumer, instead of transferring to next organism. 

3. Decomposer not pictured, transferring energy back to producer.

300

I make my own energy.

Producer

300

All of the living and non-living things in an area

Ecosystem

300

Offspring

young or babies

300

What is the difference between an abiotic and a biotic factor?

Abiotic factors are non-living: soil, rocks, air, water

Biotic factors are living: animals, plants, fungi

300

What is wrong with this Food web?

Daily Triple:

Any option below is correct:

Energy stops with Top consumer.

No decomposer.

Energy does not transfer back to producer.

400

I make energy for other organisms. 

Producer

400

Daily Double:

3 Sheep, 2 pigs, and a goat on a farm

Community

400

Sun

Ultimate Source of energy

400

What is special about the energy shared between living organisms in a food web?

The energy is always transferred/recycled, it is never lost.

400

What is the difference between a food web and food chain?

A food chain shows the direction energy flows between organisms. A food web is multiple food chains put together.

500

I consume energy by eating meat.

Consumer

500

Bison, Trees, Air, Water, and Swan

Ecosystem
500

Daily Double:

represents the directional flow of energy in a food web

energy arrow

500

All living things are made up of ______. 

cells

500

What happens to the energy once it leaves the decomposer?

It gets transferred or recycled back to a producer.