Vocab 1
Organisms that cannot make their own food.
Consumers
These organisms make their own food.
Producer
What is a carnivore? What is an example?
Consumer that eats meat.
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Describe how a snake, a predator, can also be a prey?
The snake is a predator because it can hunt and eat mice. The snake is a prey because if another animal caught and ate the snake, the snake would be the prey.
What is the name of the chemical that decomposers use to break down the last remains of plants and animals and animal wastes?
Enzymes
The animals that predators hunt.
Prey
When plants and animals die, some organism in the environment eat them for food. They clean up the environment.
Scavengers
What is a herbivore?
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List three examples of a consumer.
List three examples of a producer.
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The transfer of food energy from one organism to the next in an ecological community
Food chain
An organism that breaks down wastes and plant and animal remains and returns their nutrients to the soil.
Decomposers
What is an omnivore?
A consumer that eats both meat and plants.
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What is a decomposer's job? Name one example?
AN organism that breaks down wastes and plant and animal remains and returns their nutrients to the soil.
"The garbage men"
Fungi, bacteria,
The process of how plants and plant-like organisms make their own food. Plants use the energy in sun light to change water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen.
Photosynthesis
The green molecule found in chloroplasts, that help with the process of photosynthesis.
Chlorophyll
What is a first-level consumer?
A herbivore.
The food chain is scrambled. Rewrite these links in the correct order.
Hawk - Mouse - Corn - Fungi
Corn - Mouse - Hawk - Fungi
This shows what eats what, and how food chains overlap with one another.
Food web
This shows how much energy passes from one organism to another up a food chain.
A scavenger
List the five different parts of a food chain in order from the most basic distribution of energy to the final link of the food chain.
1. Producer
2. First level consumer
3. Second level consumer
4. Third level consumer
5. Decomposer