5th Grade Life Science Review

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment makes up a 

• food web
• ecosystem
• food chain

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment

An organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

Which of the following is NOT a consumer

• grass
• dog
• shark
• fish

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

Give examples of abiotic and biotic organisms you may find in an ecosystem.