Fourth Grade Ecosystem

The role of a producer is to ___________________

• .produce water

• produce food

• eat other organisms

• decompose the bodies of dead animals

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Decomposers are helpful because

• they produce food from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide gas

• they eat other animals keeping the population of consumers down

• they break down the remains of other organisms and add nutrients to the soil

• they produce oxygen for other organisms to breathe

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What is the role of decomposes in an ecosystem

• to reduce predators in the area

• to provide food for the consumer

• to capture the sun’s energy

• to bread down dead plants

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Where do producers get the energy they need to make their own food?

• By eating

• from the sun

• from other producers

• from the soil

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Which list contains the basic needs of all living plants?

• Plants, shelter, food, air

• Water, air, shelter, food

• Water, air, sunlight

• Water, shelter, salt

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The rocks, soil, water, plants, and animals in an area make-up _________

• An ecosystem

• a population

• a niche

• climate

Animals that eat other living things.

• Niche

• consumer

• environment

• habitat

How do producers, consumers, decomposes depend on each othter

• The producers makes food for the decomposer and consumer

• The decomposer eats the food from the producer and then the cosumer eats the decomposer

• The consumer allows the producer and decomposer to eat

• The decomposer eats the dead waste so it does not pile up, the producers uses the sun and rain to grow to make food for the consumer

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A fox is a

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• niche

Bacteria and algae are

• consuemrs

• decomposers

• producers

• communties

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