Food Chain, Food Web, Energy Pyramid
Plants
Decomposers
Random
100
The primary consumers in this food web.
Cricket, Mouse, Rabbit, Deer
100
State two (2) functions of the leaves.
1) Take in air and sunlight.
2) Create food for the plant.
100
Bacteria and mushrooms are a form of a ___________
Decomposer
100
make a food chain with the following: mouse, snake, seeds, hawk
seeds -> mouse -> snake -> hawk
200
List organisms that would go into each level of the food chain.
Examples:
Producers - flowers, trees, grass
Herbivores - deer, rabbit, cow, goat, grasshopper
Carnviores - snake, bird, fox, coyote
Apex Predator - lion, bear, hawk, cheetah
200
State two (2) ways roots help the plants.
1) They absorb water and minerals from the soil.
2) They help the plant to stay firm.
200
What is the role of the decomposer in an ecosystem?
Break down dead organisms.
200
What are consumers that eat both plants and meat?
Herbivores
300
If all the producers where removed from the ecosystem what would happen to the consumers?
Consumers would die
300
The three (3) things a plant needs to survive.
Water, Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide
300
Examples of decomposers
Mushrooms; Earthworms; Mold; Bacteria
300
This if found at each level of the organism and breaks down dead or decaying plant and animal material.
Decomposer
400
make a food web with the following: gazelle, bugs, grass, meerkat, lion
400
The two (2) materials that a plant releases after photosynthesis.
Oxygen and Sugar (food)
400
What role do earthworms play in the ecosystem?
They are decomposers.
400
Process of how plants make their food.
Photosynthesis
500
Organism that can be BOTH a Secondary Consumer AND a Tertiary Consumer in this Food Web.
Owl or Hawk
500
What do plants take in and what do they release?
1. Carbon Dioxide
2. Water
3. Sugar (food)
4. Oxygen
500
How might an ecosystem change if all the decomposers disappeared or were removed?
Matter would not be recycled within the ecosystem and would be full of dead organisms that would never disappear.
500
What's the order in which water moves through the tree’s parts?
1) Roots
2) Trunk/Stem
3) Branches
4) Leaves