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Producers, Consumers and Decomposers
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Heather Whitby
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This quiz comprehensively covers ecological relationships and energy flow within ecosystems, specifically focusing on the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Appropriate for elementary grade levels 3-5, the assessment evaluates students' understanding of how organisms obtain energy and their classification within food webs. Students need to grasp fundamental concepts including photosynthesis as the process by which plants create their own food using sunlight, the distinction between autotrophs (producers) and heterotrophs (consumers), and the critical role decomposers play in recycling nutrients back into ecosystems. The quiz requires students to apply their knowledge by categorizing specific organisms as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores based on their dietary habits, and connecting physical adaptations like tooth structure to feeding behaviors. Students must understand that energy flows in one direction through ecosystems while matter cycles continuously through the interactions of these three major groups of organisms. Created by Heather Whitby, a Science teacher in the US who teaches grades 1-5. This assessment serves as an excellent tool for reinforcing ecosystem concepts through multiple instructional approaches, whether used as a quick warmup to activate prior knowledge, guided practice during direct instruction, or formative assessment to gauge student understanding before moving to more complex food web relationships. The quiz format allows for immediate feedback and identifies misconceptions students may hold about organism classifications or ecological processes. Teachers can utilize this assessment for homework assignments to solidify learning or as review material before summative evaluations on ecosystem dynamics. The content directly supports NGSS standards 5-LS2-1 (developing models to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment) and 3-LS4-3 (describing how the environment influences organism traits and survival), providing essential foundational knowledge for understanding interdependent relationships in ecosystems.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why are plants called producers?
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NGSS.MS-LS1-6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the process in which plants use sunlight to create energy?
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS1-6
NGSS.MS-LS2-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Living things that eat other living things are called...
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NGSS.MS-LS2-3
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do herbivores eat?
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NGSS.5-LS2-1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do carnivores eat?
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NGSS.5-LS2-1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do omnivores eat?
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NGSS.5-LS2-1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do decomposers eat?
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NGSS.MS-LS2-3
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