Energy Flashcards
What type of consumers are herbivores?
Primary
What gets us energy directly from the sun?
Plants
What gets its energy indirectly from the sun?
Animals
What is a producer?
Plant
Why are plants called producers?
They produce their own energy from sunlight
Why do organisms need energy?
To grow
What is the plant process of converting sunlight into the type of energy that allows them to grow called?
Photosynthesis
What is a consumer? Why?
Animals because they get their energy from consuming (eating) other things. They take the energy from the animals/plants that they eat
What is a primary consumer?
Herbivore
What is a secondary consumer?
An animal that eats herbivores. It could be a carnivore or an omnivore
What is a tertiary consumer?
The third consumer in a food chain. They eat secondary consumers (could be carnivores or omnivores)
What order of consumer is a cow?
Primary
Give some example of decomposes?
Worms, fungi, bacteria
How do decomposers get their energy?
From eating dead plants and animals
Why are decomposers thought of as recyclers?
They release the nutrients in dead organisms back into the soil. Plants then use the nutrients. This means the nutrients are recycled .
What are nutrients?
Substances in food (or soil) that living things need to live, grow and to stay healthy
What are nutrients used for?
To live
What makes something a source of energy?
It is something a living organism gets food from