Energy in Ecosystems

What is a producer?

• An organism that can make its own food.

• An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

• An organism that eats other organisms

• An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

What is a consumer?

• An organism that can make its own food.

• An organism that changes solar energy into food

• An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

• An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

What is a decomposer?

• An organism that can make its own food.

• An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

• An organism that changes solar energy into food

• An organism that eats other organisms

What is an herbivore?

• A consumer that eats only plants.

• A consumer that eats only animals.

• A consumer that eats both plants and animals

• An organism that can make its own food.

What is a carnivore?

• A consumer that eats only plants.

• A consumer that eats both plants and animals

• An organism that can make its own food.

• An organism that eats only meat

What is an omnivore?

• A consumer that eats only animals.

• An organism that makes its own food

• A consumer that eats both plants and animals

• A consumer that eats only animals.

What is an autotroph?

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes

• A consumer

• An organism that eats producers

What is a heterotroph?

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes; also called a consumer

• An organism that changes solar energy into food

• An organism that eats only decomposers

What is a primary consumer?

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that eats secondary consumers

• An organism that eats producers

• An organism that eats primary consumers

What is a secondary consumer?

• An organism that eats producers

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that eats secondary consumers

• An organism that eats primary consumers