Vocabulary
Producers
Consumers
Energy Transfer
OTHER
100
Organisms that get energy by eating other organisms
Consumers
100
Where plants get their energy
What is the sun
100
True or False:
All animals are consumers
True
100
The arrow in a food chain shows _____________
the flow of energy as it passes from one organism to another
100
Any living thing
organism
200
An organism that produces its own food
What is a producer
200
How are producers different from consumers?
Producers make their own food. Consumers can not make their own food.
200
Name the consumer that ONLY eats plants
What is a herbivore
200
Which choice correctly explains the path of energy through a food chain?
A. wolf -> plant -> deer
B. plant -> rabbit -> deer
C. plant -> rabbit -> cougar
D. cougar -> rabbit -> wolf
C. plant -> rabbit -> cougar
200
What would consumers in an ecosystem have to do in order to survive if they eat the same resource as another consumer in the ecosystem?
Compete for food.
300
Which of the following is an example of something that is nonliving in an ecosystem?
flower - rock - mushrooms - mouse - leaf
A rock
300
Which best describes the role of a producer in an ecosystem?
A) A producer supplies light for the consumers in the ecosystem.
B) A producer supplies water for the consumers in the ecosystem.
C) A producer supplies energy for the consumers in the ecosystem.
C) A producer supplies energy for the consumers in the ecosystem.
300
Name the consumer that ONLY eats meat
What is a carnivore
300
What is the transfer of energy from one organism to another?
food chain
300
True OR False
All decomposers are carnivores.
False
400
An organism that is living and breaks down dead material is commonly known as _____________
A decomposer
400
What nonliving factor MUST be present for a producer to survive in an ecosystem?
Sunlight
400
Name the consumer that eats BOTH plants and animals
What is a omnivore
400
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food web is the combination of several food chains in an ecosystem.
400
Which shows an example of a 1) Decomposer 2)Producer and 3) Consumer
A) 1) Mold 2) Cricket 3) Fungi
B) 1) Grass 2) Cricket 3) Spider
C) 1) Snake 2) Spider 3) Fly
D) 1) Mushroom 2) Grass 3) Cricket
D) 1) Mushroom 2) Grass 3) Cricket
500
How living things interact with nonliving things is called _____________.
An ecosystem
500
Producers are food source for which type of consumer?
herbivores
500
A consumer that DO NOT eat plants is a ___________.
Carnivore
500
What organism breaks down dead animals and matter then return it to the soil as nutrients?
Decomposers
500
Name the predator to the grasshopper.
Mouse