Producers
Consumers
Producers, Consumers, Or Decomposers
Food Chain
Ecosystems
100
Where do plants get their energy from?
The Sun
100
What do you call an organism that only eats plants?
Herbivore
100
People are part of food chains. What is the role of a person in a food chain?
Consumer
100
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
The flow/direction/path of energy in the food web.
100
Which animal would function best in this ecosystem?
rabbit, cactus, duck, penguin
duck
200
What do producers do to get food?
Photosynthesis
200
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?
Omnivore
200
Amy is planting tomatoes and carrots in her garden. She notices that small insects like to eat her tomatoes and carrots just like she does. The small insects are examples of what?
Consumers
200
Grass → Grasshopper → Shrew → Hawk
Which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away?
Grasshopper
200
What animal would most likely be found here?
crab, fish, scorpion, seagull
scorpion
300
Name 3 things that a producer needs to make its own food.
Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, and Water
300
When consumers breathe out what type of gas do they produce?
Carbon Dioxide
300
What would a mushroom would be classified as?
Decomposer
300
Grass → Zebra → Hyena → Lion
What would likely happen to the lion if the zebra population decreased?
The lion population will decrease.
300
A student lists several characteristics of a desert ecosystem. Which one does NOT belong?
A. heavy rainfall
B. poor soil
C. little vegetation
A. heavy rainfall
400
Which organism is the most important in the food chain?
trees
400
How do consumers get their energy?
They eat other organisms.
400
Which organism eats animals but is also eaten by other animals?
Organism C: Snakes
400
Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl
Identify the tertiary (3rd) consumer.
Owl
400
What does a food web show?
Multiple food chains and/or all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
500
What do producers release that helps consumers breathe?
Oxygen
500
Which of the following would be at the top of the food chain?
grasshopper, hawk, frog, grass
hawk
500
What organisms would experience a population decline with the loss of the rabbit?
Fox and Hawk
500
In the food chain Tree → Deer →Mountain Lion what would be the result if the tree population decreased due to a forest fire?
The deer and mountain lion populations would decrease
500
Which type of organism on the food web has all of the arrows pointing towards it?
Decomposer