More Animal Info Flashcards
Producer
A living thing that can make its own food.
What is a living thing that can make its own food?
Producer
Consumer
A living thing that eats other living things to survive.
What a living thing that eats other living things to survive?
Consumer
Decomposer
A living thing that breaks down and feeds on once-living things.
What is a living thing that breaks down and feeds on once-living things?
Decomposer
Carnivore
An animal that only eats other animals.
What is an animal that only eats other animals?
Carnivore
Herbivore
An animal that only eats plants.
What is an animal that only eats plants?
Herbivore
Omnivore
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an animal that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
Predator
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is an animal that hunts other animals for food?
Predator
Prey
An animal hunted for food by another animal.
What is an animal hunted for food by another animal?
Prey
Food Chain
The path that energy takes through a community as one living thing eats another.
What is the path that energy takes through a community as one living thing eats another?
Food Chain
Food Web
Two or more overlapping food chains.
What is two or more overlapping food chains?
Food Web
Extinction
The dying out of all living things of a certain kind.
What is the dying out of all living things of a certain kind?
Extinction
What is an example of a food chain (using hawk, plant, snake, mouse)?
Mouse eats plants. Snake eats mouse. Hawk eats snake.
The ________ eats the plants.
mouse
The ________ eats the mouse.
snake
The ________ eats the snake.
hawk
What is an example of a food chain (using mouse, mountain lion, fox, grass)?
Mouse eats the plants. Fox eats the mouse. Mountain lion eats the fox.
Of these four creatures, which two of the food chain are prey: mouse, mountain lion, fox, grass.
fox and mouse
Which living things are predators: mouse, mountain lion, fox, grass?
mountain lion and fox
Many food chains can be linked together to form a __________________.
food web
The three basic things you need to live are food, water, and ___________.
air
One kind of producer is a _________.
plant
An animal that eats only plants or only parts of plants is an herbivore. An example of an herbivore is ________________.
praying mantis
______________ is dying out of all living things of a certain kind.
Extinction
A living thing that eats other living things is a _________.
consumer
A living thing that eats dead organisms is a ______________.
decomposer
A ____________ is a path that energy takes as one living thing eats another.
food chain
A __________ shows a food relationship among plants and animals in a specific area or environment.
food chain
Green plants make their own food from ____________, ________, and _________.
sunlight, air and water
Examples of a decomposers are ________________________________.
fungi, such as mushrooms, and earthworms
