True or False: Decomposers do not need energy to live.

• True

• False

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How does the food chain start?

• Plant life uses energy from the sun to make food

• Insects like grasshoppers eat plant life

• Animals like rats eat insects

• Humans eat large animals and plant life

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What do we call an animal that gets eaten in a food chain?

• Predator

• Prey

• Consumer

• Producer

True or False: An animal cannot be both a predator and prey.

• True

• False

Which of the following are producers?

• Plants

• Humans

• Snakes

• Birds

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What is the role of decomposers in the food chain?

• To consume plants and animals

• To produce food using energy from the sun

• To eat prey

• To eat decaying matter and return nutrients to the soil

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Seals eat fish. What would happen to the seal population if almost al the fish died?

• The population would grow

• The population would shrink

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Lions eat zebras. What would happen to the zebra population if almost all the lions died?

• The population would grow

• The population would shrink

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Aardvarks eat termites. Aardvarks are termites ____________.

• consumers

• producers

• prey

• predators

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How do consumers get energy to live?

• They make their own food from the soil

• They break down decaying matter

• They eat other plants and animals

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