Food Chains, Predators, Herbivores & Carnivores
An animal that eats other animals for food.
What is a carnivore?
Trees eat soil. True or false.
What is false?
A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animal materials.
What is a decomposer?
They use carbon dioxide and release oxygen, include plants, algae, and phytoplankton. They also make their own food, rather than eating other living things.
What are producers?
The movement of matter from one organism to the next. This represents transfer of energy.
What is matter flow?
An animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
Tiny openings on the underside of leaves where it sucks in air that it needs for its food.
What are stomata?
A substance needed by an organism for health and growth.
What are nutrients?
They break down waste and dead material into nutrients for plants.
What are decomposers?
Who is a fungi?
Who is Mr. Stultz?
An animal that eats both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
Mushrooms, mold, and fungi.
What are decomposers?
A way to describe which animal eats other organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
A type of gas that plants release and animals breathe in.
What is oxygen?
These are in the air, and everywhere, and cause mold
What are spores?
When you go “down” the food chain by continuing to ask “What does it eat?” at what category of living things do you always end up?
What is plants (producers)?
Worms are the ONLY kind of decomposers. True or false.
A model that shows how food chains connect and overlap.
What is a food web?
The process of matter moving back and forth between non-living and living parts of the environment, like between air and plants.
What is the matter cycle?
This is the name of a large and unwanted algae growth in water
What is an algae bloom?
Several food chains are linked to each other.
What is a food web?
A substance that living things need to grow and stay healthy.
What are nutrients (micronutrients)?
A community of living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions.
What is an ecosystem?
An ____________ includes all living things (producers, consumers, decomposers) in an area, and their nonliving environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Water that moves across the surface after carrying material and flows into drains and rivers.
What is runoff?