Consumers & Producers 1
What type of organism makes its own food?
A) Consumer
B) Decomposer
C) Producer
D) Scavenger
C) Producer
Which of these items can function as a decomposer?
A) Bread
B) Leaves
C) Fungus
D) Rotting meat
C) Fungus
What is the primary source of energy for a shrub (thick branched plant)?
A) Carbon dioxide
B) Oxygen
C) Soil
D) Sunlight
D) Sunlight
What is the process that plants use to produce food?
A) Carbon Dioxide
B) Photosynthesis
C) Chloroplast
D) Sunlight
B) Photosynthesis
An ecosystem is made of both biotic and abiotic things. Which describes the biotic part?
A) Plants that grow in soil
B) The animals that breathe oxygen
C) All living things in the environment
D) Plants and animals that live in water
C) All living things in an enviornment
What is the role of PEOPLE in a food chain?
A) Carnivore
B) Consumer
C) Decomposer
D) Producer
B) Consumer
Ecosystems have producers, consumers, and decomposers. Why are decomposers important in all ecosystems?
A) They eat herbivores and keep down the population of plants.
B) They eat carnivores and keep down the population of animals.
C) They produce more food for other organisms.
D) They break down dead plants and animals.
D) They break down dead plants and animals
Hawks eat snakes. Snakes eat toads. Toads eat grasshoppers. Grasshoppers eat plants. Which of the following statements are true?
A) Toads are herbivores
B) Grasshoppers are producers
C) Hawks are consumers
D) Hawks are producers
C) Hawks are consumers
What does a food web show?
A) How predators find food
B) What food organisms eat
C) Why organisms find food
D) When organisms seek food
B) What food organisms eat
What is a carnivore?
A) Animal or person that only eats meat
B) Animal or person that eats both
C) Animal or person that eats only plants
D) Animal or person that eats only seafood
A) Animal or person that only eats meat
Which of these orders shows the flow of energy in a food chain?
A) decomposers, consumers, plants, producers
B) sun, consumers, producers, decomposers
C) producers, predators, decomposers, consumers
D) sun, producers, consumers, decomposers
D) sun, producers, consumers, decomposers
In a food chain, what is the connection between sun and tree?
A) The sun helps chlorophyll turn oxygen into carbon dioxide.
B) The tree shades animals from the sun and gives them nutrients
C) The sun heats up the ground so the tree's roots can take in water
D) The tree uses the sun's energy to make food through photosynthesis
D) The tree uses the sun's energy to make food through photosynthesis
Where would a deer fit in a food chain?
A) A decomposer
B) As a predator and a prey
C) Both producer and consumer
D) Just a producer
B) As a predator and a prey
Which of these is a series of food chains?
A) Food diagram
B) Energy Pyramid
C) Food Chart
D) Food Web
D) Food Web
What is an omnivore?
A) Animal or person that only eats meat
B) Animal or person that eats both
C) Animal or person that eats only plants
D) Animal or person that eats only seafood
B) Animal or person that eats both
Which of the following is an example of a producer?
A) Caterpillar
B) Robin
C) Tree
D) Worm
C) Tree
Some organisms break down dead things for food. Which word describes these organisms?
A) consumers
B) decomposers
C) herbivores
D) producers
B) decomposers
In the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle, which organisms take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen as part of the process of making food?
A) Animals
B) Consumers
C) Plants
D) Plants and Animals
C) Plants
Which of the following uses the sun for food or energy?
A) Decomposers
B) Consumers
C) Carnivores
D) Producers
D) Producers
List an omnivore.
Answers may vary.
How are decomposers like consumers?
A) They provide energy to producers
B) They must capture prey in order to survive
C) They can make their own energy from sunlight
D) They get their energy from producers or other consumers
D) They get their energy from producers or other consumers
Why does bacteria normally fall at the end of a food chain?
A) They are producers and make food from sunlight.
B) They are consumers and feed off the dead animals.
C) They are decomposers and break down dead animals.
D) They are consumers and the smallest organisms on the chain.
C) They are decomposers, and break down the dead animals
During decomposition, wastes of living organisms are broken down and nutrients are released. What is the MOST IMPORTANT cause of decomposition?
A) Air
B) Sunlight
C) Plants
D) Bacteria and Fungi
D) Bacteria and Fungi
Which of the following do plants create during photosynthesis?
A) Oxygen, sugar, water
B) Sunlight, oxygen, sugar
C) Water, carbon dioxide, sunlight
D) Oxygen & sugar
D) Oxygen & sugar
What would you consider a venus fly trap to be (omnivore, herbivore, or carnivore)?
Omnivore