Year 8 Food Webs

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
• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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The products of photosynthesis are

• sugar and carbon dioxide

• water and glucose

• oxygen and sunlight

• glucose and oxygen

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Photosynthesis requires

• chemical energy

• light energy and chlorophyll

• kinetic energy and chloroplasts

• the sun and cytoplasm

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

• food web
• ecosystem
• food chain
• population

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What is a herbivore?

• an animal that gets energy from eating other animals
• an organism that gets energy from eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals
• an animal that eats only herbs

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

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• prey

An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste is a(an) ___________.

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

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An animal that is hunted and eaten for food is a __________.

• predator
• prey
• population

What is a carnivore?

• an animal that gets energy by eating other animals
• An animal that gets energy by eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals
• an animal that makes its own energy through photosynthesis

The shrew provides energy for the _______.

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

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