Matter and Energy Flow Quiz

What is a producer?

• Organisms that make their own food
• Organisms that eat other organisms for energy
• organisms that break down dead organisms

What is a consumer?

• An organism that makes it's own food

• An organisms that eats other organisms for energy

• An organism that breaks down dead organisms

Where do crickets get their energy?

• Cattails
• Marsh Grass
• Grasshoppers
• Shrews

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What is an example of a decomposer?

• Plum
• Mushroom
• Deer
• Bird

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Which would be the appropriate term for an organism that eats a producer?

• scavenger
• decomposer
• secondary consumer
• primary consumer

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In an ecosystem, beetles eat grain, and lizards eat the beetles. Which statement is true?

• Beetles are carnivores.
• Beetles are producers.
• Lizards are decomposers.
• Lizards are consumers.

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How do plants get the nitrogen they need?

• from the air

• from the sun

• from soil or water

• from photsynthesis

What is an autotroph?

• an organism that can make their own food. 
• an organism that cannot make their own food
• Herbivore
• Omnivore

Photosynthesis converts____________________ energy into _________________________ energy

• sound, chemical

• radiant, heat

• radiant, chemical

• chemical, radiant

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A tertiary consumer has to be a

• carnivore

• producer

• decomposer

• herbivore

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