ecology vocab quiz

A producer?

• Eats other plants and animals
• Makes its own food
• Eats dead plants or animals
• Makes toys for kids

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

A consumer?

• Makes its own food
• Eats dead plants and animals
• Eats plants and other animals for energy
• Buys toys for kids

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A decomposer?

• Eats dead plants or animals and breaks down to put nutrients in the soil
• Eats plants or other animals for food
• Makes its own food
• Machine that gathers trash

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Frog. Is it a....

• Producer
• Conusmer
• Decomposer

Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The role an organism plays in an ecosystem is called its

• niche
• heterotroph
• consumer
• decomposer

Name a place that a plant or animal lives in its environment where its needs are met.

• energy
• extinct
• food chain
• habitat

The way energy is passed from one organism to another

• food chain
• energy
• extinct
• habitat

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

A(n) __________ includes all living and non-living things in an environment. 

• population
• niche
• abitotic
• ecosystem