Plant stuff
Eat or be eaten
Food for Thought
Vocabulary
Purple Hippo
100
This is the process plants go through to change carbon-dioxide into oxygen so they can make sugars.

What is photosynthesis?

100

This type of consumer eats only plants.

What is a herbivore?

100

This brings all of the nutrients back to the soil.

What are decomposers?

100

The transfer of food energy from one organism to the next in an ecological community is called this.

What is a food chain?

100

This is what would happen if all of the producers in a food web disappeared. 

What is everything else would die (or decrease)?

200

Plants have these tiny holes in their leaves, which allows gasses to pass through them.

What are stomata?

200

This type of consumer can be found munching on dead things.

What is a scavenger?

200

This is what a food chain always starts with.

What is a producer?

200

These show how food chains overlap.

What is a food web?

200

Hippos wouldn't make good pets, but they wouldn't eat you because they are this, which means they wouldn't like the way you taste.

What are herbivores?

300

Plants use energy from THIS in order to complete photosynthesis.

What is the sun?

300

Animals of this sort like to have a diverse meal of plants and animals.

What is an omnivore?

300

Animals that eat only plants are called herbivores. They are called THIS on an energy pyramid.

What is a first level consumer?

300

This shows how much energy passes from one organism to another up a food chain.

What is an energy pyramid?

300

These animals better watch out! There are other animals hunting them.

What are prey?

400

All plants are these, which means they make their own food.

What are producers?

400

Animals of this variety tend to have claws and sharp teeth good for hunting down prey.

What is a carnivore?

400

Carnivores can be found here on the energy pyramid.

What is at the top?

400

This are organisms that break down, or decompose, wastes and the remains of dead organisms.

What are decomposers?

400

Hungry? Try being this type of consumer. One that goes after and kills other animals.

What is a predator? 

500

Plants are very important to the food web. This is where plants are located in an energy pyramid.

What is the bottom? (lowest level)

500

Humans, bears, and raccoons are all this type of consumer.

What are omnivores?

500

Second-level consumers are also known as these.

What are omnivores and carnivores?

500

These are organisms that cannot make their own food.

What is a consumer?

500
These are the four things plants need to make surgars.

What is oxygen, carbon-dioxide, sunlight, and water?