Ecology

Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem
• Food flowing through an ecosystem
• Consumers going into other consumers
• Who eats who

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

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What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Eat other organisms to gain energy
• Make the food for the whole food chain
• Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil

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Which type of consumer eats plants only?

• Herbivores
• Omnivores
• Carnivores
• Scavengers

Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?

• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Plants

Producers get their energy from the ______.

• water
• Sun
• eating animals
• eating plants

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Which organism is a decomposer?

• grass
• mouse
• mushroom
• caterpillar

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Organisms that only eat meat are ______.

• omnivores
• carnivores
• herbivores
• food chains

What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

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