Ecosystems and Populations (7)

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment makes up a 

• food web
• ecosystem
• food chain

An animal that hunts other animals for food is a ___________

• herbivore
• predator
• prey
• omnivore

What is a herbivore?

• an animal that gets energy from eating other animals
• an organism that gets energy from eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment

An animal that is hunted and eaten for food is a 

• predator
• prey

An organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

What is a carnivore?

• an animal that gets energy by eating other animals
• An animal that gets energy by eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals

An animal that gets energy from eating both plants and animals is a 

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake