Student Submission

Questions:

1.  Define:

a) producers- plants are producers because they are able to use light energy from the Sun to produce food from carbon dioxide and water

 b) consumers- consumers are living things that get their food from other living things such as plants or animals

c) decomposers- plants and bacteria that eat the nutrients of organisms that are dead

2. Images of:

        

a) producer (plant)  

     

b) consumer (deer)                          

               c) decomposer  (worm)

3.  In 5-6 sentences, summarize the differences between a food chain and a food web.

A food chain describes how different organisms eat each other, starting out with a plant and ending with an animal.  Food chains follow a single path where animals eat each other.  A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food.  A food web is a combination of food chains all linking together. When you draw all the chains together you end up with a food web.   Food webs show how plants and animals are linked together by different paths.