Food Web & Ecosystems

What is a producers job in the ecosystem?

• to make food and oxygen for the animals
• to help plants grow
• to break down dead plants and animals
• to eat plants and other animals

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What is an ecosystem?

• the pattern of weather that affects an area
• the life cycle of a plant
• all the living things in a forest or desert
• all the living and nonliving things that share an environment

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What are plants and animals that get their energy from eating other living things?

• producers
• consumers
• herbivores
• decomposers

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What part of a food chain only eats meat?

• omnivores
• producers
• herbivore
• carnivore

Elephants only eat plants.  What kind of consumer is an elephant?

• producer
• omnivore
• herbivore
• carnivore

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Which of the following to omnivores eat?

• plants only
• meat only
• both plants and animals
• they make their own food

What is a food web?

• a web created by a spider to trap its food
• a network of food chains in an ecosystem
• a community of plants and animals
• the food that one animal eats

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A simple "line" of plants and animals that transfer energy by the process of eating.

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• Decomposers

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An organism in a food web that feeds directly on the producer.

• Primary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer
• Decomposer
• Carnivore

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An organism in a food web that eats other consumers to obtain energy.

• Producer

• Secondary

  Consumer

• Prey

• Scavenger

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