Energy Roles & Food Chains

What energy role describes an organism that makes its own food, usually by using energy from the sun?

• consumer
• producer
• carnivore
• decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is another word for a producer?

• scavenger

• consumer

• autotroph

• heterotroph

What energy role describes an organism that cannot make its own food and therefore gets energy by eating other organisms?

• consumer
• producer
• autotroph
• sunlight

What is another word for consumer?

• scavenger

• producer

• autotroph

• Heterotroph

Consumers that eat other animals are called

• decomposers

• herbivores

• carnivores

• omnivores

Herbivores eat

• meat only

• plants only

• both animals and plants

• freshly dead organisms

Omnivores eat

• meat only

• plants only

• both animals and plants

• freshly dead organisms

Carnivores that eat dead organisms are

• herbivores
• decomposers
• omnivores
• scavengers

These organisms break down decaying biotic wastes and then return the materials to the ecosystem.

• decomposers
• scavengers
• carnivores
• producers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How do producers get energy?

• Bacteria

• Sunlight

• Oxygen

• Water

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6