Science Ch. 1

What do all food chains and food webs start with?

• primary consumers
• producers
• secondary consumers
• tertiary consumers

Which are examples of producers?

• grass, leaves, algae
• the sun
• crickets, spiders, beetles
• mushrooms, fungi

What breaks down dead organisms? 

• predators
• decomposers
• consumers
• scavengers

Decomposers put what back into the soil?

• Dirt
• Food
• Energy
• Nutrients 

What provides the start of all energy?

• Sun
• Producers
• Nutrients
• Decomposers

Any living thing.

• prey

• organism

• food web

• environment

A community of the living and nonliving things in an area.

• environment

• organism

• ecosystem

• food web

The surrounding conditions (like soil, climate, and living things)

• environment

• phenomenon

• prey

• food web

An animal that eats other animals.

• prey

• predator

An animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals.

• prey

• predator