1. Feeding Relationships

2. Producers vs. Consumers
Make their own food via photosynthesis
Consumers
Get energy by eating producers or consumers

3. Identify if the following examples are a producer or consumer
Flowering plants
Turtles
Ants
Moss
Antelope

4. Types of Consumers Herbivore eats plants Carnivore eats animals
Omnivore
eats plants and animals
Scavenger
Feeds on the remains of another animal
Decomposer
eats breaking down dead organisms

5. Organisms die at ALL LEVELS of the food chain
Decomposition
Organisms die at ALL LEVELS of the food chain
As organisms die they decompose into organic material. This organic material produces nutrients that producers need to grow.

6. Identify if the following examples are a herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger or decomposer
Bacteria
Sharks
Deer
Raccoons
Vulture

7. Tertiary Consumers
Carnivores
Ex: Snake
Secondary Consumers
Carnivores
Ex: rat
Omnivores
Primary Consumers
Ex: bear
Herbivores
Ex: grasshopper
Primary Producers
Ex: plants

8. Grass → Grasshopper → Mouse → Snake
Food Chain
Definition:
One way flow of energy
Example:
Grass → Grasshopper → Mouse → Snake

9. Label the Primary Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, and Tertiary Consumer in the food chain below.
Grass → Grasshopper → Mouse → Snake

10. Represents ALL the possible feeding relationships in an ecosystem
Food Web
Definition:
Network of interconnecting food chains
Represents ALL the possible feeding relationships in an ecosystem

12. Identify two food chains found in the food web above.