CMS Unit 7: Energy Flow Pre-Assessment

An organism that can make its own food is called?

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Herbivore

A consumer gets energy by doing what?

• Making it themselves.
• Breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returning raw materials to the ecosystem.
• Soaking it up from the ground.
• Feeding on other organisms.

A food chain is?

• Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
• The amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• biotic and abiotic factors in an area.

A carnivore eats only other animals. What is an example?

• Bison
• Elephant
• Caterpillar
• Coyote

The energy role that break down biotic wastes and dead organisms is?

• Consumer
• Producer
• Scavenger
• Decomposer

This diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

• Energy Pyramid
• Food Web
• Ecosystem
• Food Chain

This type of consumer eats both other consumers and producers to obtain energy. It's name means "ALL" or "WHOLE" in latin.

• Carnivore.
• Herbivore.
• Omnivore
• Scavenger.

A food web consists of?

• Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• Amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another.
• Many types of insects that are stuck.

This type of consumer obtains all of its energy by eating only producers.

• Omnivore
• Herbivore
• Scavenger
• Carnivore

This type of consumer eats only plants.

• Carnivore.
• Herbivore
• Omnivore.
• Scavenger.