Producers, Consumers, Decomposers Jeopardy Review Game Answer Key

Producers
#1	What is a producer?	plants, trees, grass
#3	What does an organism need to make its own food?	They are important because they provide food and energy to the ecosystem
#5	What is the process called when a producer makes its own food?	A consumer is an organism that cannot make its own food
#2	What are the three types of consumers?	A herbivore is an organism that only eats plants. A carniovre is an organism that only eats meat. A omnivore is a organism that eats both animals and plants. A scavenger is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
#4	What do consumers depend on producers for?	The producers would all die off and the consumers would not have enough food

Decomposers
#1	What is a decomposer?	an organism that breaks down waste and other dead organisms
#2	What happens to the waste that a decomposer breaks down?	mushrooms, worms, fungi, bacteria
#4	What are the two major types of decomposers	The break down dead material which creates soil and provides nutirents for new things to grow

Definitions
#1	What is prey?	All of the connected and interacting food chains in an ecosystem
#3	What is a food chain?	The ability to do work
#5	What is an ecosystem?