Chapter 5
What shows the path of food from one living thing to another?
A food chain
What are overlapping food chains called?
A food web
Can you give an example of animal that is both a predator and a prey?
A small bird that eats insects is a predator. If a hawk hunts the small bird, then the bird becomes the prey and the hawk is the predator.
What type of consumer gets its food by eating other animals?
Carnivore
What type of consumer is a dragonfly and wolf?
Carnivore
An animal is a producer or consumer or decomposer?
Consumer
What is a living thing that gets energy by eating other things as food?
Consumer
How are producers, consumers and decomposers different?
Consumers and decomposers can not make their own food.
Are earthworms, bacteria and mushrooms a producer or consumer or decomposer?
Decomposer
What breaks down dead things for food?
Decomposer
Caterpillars and horses are what type of consumer?
Herbivore
What consumers only plants?
Herbivore
How are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores different?
Herbivore eats only plants. Carnivores eat other animals. Onmivores eat both plants and animals.
Can animals make their own food?
No. Some get energy by eating plants. Some get their energy by eating other animals.
What type of consumer eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
What type of consumer is a chimpanzee, grizzly bear and raccoon?
Omnivore
Be able to create a food chain using pictures.
One example would be: a plant uses sunlight to make its own food then a grasshopper eats the plants leaves then a lizard eats the grasshopper then an owl eats the lizard. Energy is passes from one living thing to another.
What is an animal that hunts another animal for food?
Predator
What is an animal hunted for food?
Prey
A plant is a producer or consumer or decomposer?
Producer
What is a living that makes, or produces, its own food?
Producer
Can you give an example of a prey for a wolf?
Rabbit. Mice.
Plants are able to make their own food by using what?
Sunlight, air and water
Describe how a heron can be involved in a food web.
The heron is a predator when it eats fish, lizards, frogs and insects. A young heron can e an alligator's prey.
How can mice defend themselves against predators?
The mouse's color helps it blend in with its surroundings. The come out mostly at night. They can hear, see and smell very well.
How are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores alike?
They all have to eat and drink to get energy. They are all consumers. They all have body parts that help them eat such as teeth or beak.
How are producers, consumers and decomposers alike?
They are all living things.
How many types of consumers are there and what are the names?
Three. They are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.
How does a gazelle defend against a predator?
Trys to out run it and will run in a zig zag pattern.
Can you give an example of a predator?
Wolf. Ant eater.
