Web of Life End of Unit Assessment

What are the MAIN ingredients plants use to make their own food?

• Water and sunlight

• Water and soil

• Water and oxygen

• Water and carbon dioxide

Which of these organisms are NOT decomposers?

• Mushrooms

• Plants

• Bacteria

• Earthworms

How is a food chain different from a food web?

• A food web is smaller than a food chain.

• A food chain is a small part of a food web.

• They are the same thing.

The energy in all ecosystems originally comes from:

• Sunlight

• Plants

• Heat

• Water

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Which are possible ways that living things interact in an ecosystem?

• Eating or being eaten by other animals.

• Giving off and taking up gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen.

• Recycling nutrients.

• All of the above

We call plants “producers” because they make their own food.

• True

• False

Gophers, mice, snails are considered as?

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Decomposers

Consumers need carbon dioxide to breathe.

• True

• False

Opossums, raccoons, crows are considered as?

• Herbivores

• Omnivores

• Carnivores

• Decomposers

Why do you think this unit was called the “Web of Life”?

• Ecosystems are complex, like a web with many connections.

• If you look at many different food chains together, they form a ‘web’ shape.

• Producers, consumers, and decomposers all work together and forms a 'web of life'.

• All of the above