Energy and Change Flashcards
What does a carnivore eat?
Meat
What does a herbivore eat?
Vegetation
What does an omnivore eat?
Meat and vegetation
Where do humans get energy?
From food
Where do plants get water and other nutrients from?
From the soil
Describe the energy chain
Plants use light energy to make food. They store food in their bodies. Animals and people eat the plants. Carnivores eat other animals.
Describe the energy chain that involves grass, the grasshopper, the snake, the hawk and decomposers.
The grasshopper eats grass. The snake eats the grasshopper, and is eaten by the hawk. When the hawk dies, its body is consumed by decomposers.
Name two kinds of decomposer.
Bacteria and fungi
Why are decomposers important?
They break down dead material.
What is energy?
The ability to do work
What do we need energy for?
Everything
Where does energy come from?
The sun and the food we eat
Classify each of these as producers, consumers and decomposers: apple tree mushroom dragonfly daffodil cougar snake hawk carrot bamboo bacteria pigeon catfish
apple tree - producer mushroom - decomposer dragonfly - consumer daffodil - producer cougar - consumer snake - consumer hawk - consumer carrot - producer bamboo - producer bacteria - decomposer pigeon - consumer catfish - consumer
Name four kinds of energy
Sound, light, heat and movement
How are coal, natural gas and oil produced?
When animals and trees die, they get buried, and turn into fossil fuels.
