Producers and Consumers

What type of organism makes its own food?

• producers

• consumers

Check all the following that are producers

• tree

• zooplankton

• phytoplankton

• grass

• ladybug

Organisms that eat other organisms to gain energy are called?

• producers

• consumers

Which of the following are examples of consumers?

• zooplankton and plants

• zooplankton and phytoplankton

• copepods and humans

• humans and grass

Which of the following would support that insects are consumers?

• Insects get their energy by eating plants or animals.

• Insects are able to make their own food.

• Insects get their energy from the air.

• Insects are able to live without energy.

What process to producers perform to make their own food?

• cellular respiration

• digestion

• photosynthesis

• eutrophication

You see a grasshopper on a leaf. What could you say about how the grasshopper gets its energy?

• It gets energy from the air.

• It gets energy from soil.

• It gets energy from the leaf.

• It gets energy from water.

From where do producers get their energy?

• consumers

• the ground

• decomposers

• the sun