Food chains Food Webs Food Chain Energy Pyramid

Food chains & Food Webs

Food Chain Energy Pyramid Food Webs 100 100 200 200 300 300 400 400 500 500 Living Things and Food

What is a producer? A living that makes its own food. Row 1, Col 1

What are decomposers? • A living that breaks down dead things for food. • Fungi, mushrooms, earthworms 1, 2

What is an energy pyramid? It shows that the amount of usable energy in an ecosystem is less for each higher animal in the food chain. 1, 3

What is a food web? A model that shows how food chains overlap in an ecosystem. 1, 4

What is a consumer? A living that eats other living things as food. 2, 1

What is interact? To work together. 2, 2

What are plants? They are at the bottom of the energy pyramid. 1 2, 3

What is a predator? An animal that hunts another food. 2, 4

What is a herbivore? • eats only plants • sheep and deer 3, 1

What is energy? • All living things need it to live • Producers get it from sunlight. • Consumers get it from food. 3, 2

What are plant-eating animals? They are second on the energy pyramid. 2 11 3, 3

What is prey? An animal that is hunted. 3, 4

What are carnivores? • a consumer that gets food by eating other animals • lions, owls, hawks 4, 1

What is a food chain? It shows how energy moves through the environment. 4, 2

What are animals that eat other animals? They are third on the energy pyramid. 3 2 1 4, 3

What are trees and grass? Two things on this web that get their energy directly from the sun. 4, 4

What are omnivores? • eat both plants and animals • most people, bears, turtles 5, 1

What is a turtle? It would come next in the food chain. 5, 2

What are animals that are not usually eaten by other animals? They are at the top on the energy pyramid. 4 3 2 1 5, 3

What are the robin, and mouse? Two animals on this web that are both predator and prey. 5, 4