Classification of Organisms in Food Chains

​Classifying Living Organisms

​ 1. Producers- can produce their own food and energy from the sun and water.

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2. Consumers- gets its food and energy by consuming (eating) other living organisms from a different population.

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3. Decomposers​- get their food and energy by consuming dead organisms.

Multiple Choice

Define organism

• nonliving thing that grows

• living thing that grows and rerpoduces

• living thing that says hi

Multiple Choice

The main source of energy for all of earth's food chains is the...

• sun

• water

• nutrients

• producers

1. Sun

2. Producer

3. Consumer (herbivore)

4. Consumer (Carnivore/Omnivore)

5. Decomposer

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​Organisms in a

Food Chain​

Reorder

Reorder the following parts of a food chain.

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Multiple Choice

Consumers are...

• Organisms that make their own food, use photosynthesis

• Organisms that can not make their own food, need to eat other organisms to get energy

• Organisms that eat decaying and dead matter

Multiple Choice

Decomposers are...

• Organisms that make their own food, use photosynthesis

• Organisms that can not make their own food, need to eat other organisms to get energy

• Organisms that eat decaying and dead matter

Multiple Choice

Recently, a family of bobcats moved into an area with a large rabbit population. What changes may occur in the ecosystem?

• The rabbit population may increase
• The rabbit population may decrease
• The rabbit population may increase first, then decrease
• The rabbit population will remain the same