Ecology

A consumer?

• Makes its own food
• Eats dead plants and animals
• Eats plants and other animals for energy
• Buys toys for kids

A decomposer?

• Eats dead plants or animals and breaks down to put nutrients in the soil
• Eats plants or other animals for food
• Makes its own food
• Machine that gathers trash

A producer?

• Eats other plants and animals
• Makes its own food
• Eats dead plants or animals
• Makes toys for kids

A consumer that hunts is called:

• a producer.
• an omnivore.
• a predator.
• a herbivore.

A __________ is all the living and nonliving things around you.

• Ecosystem
• Community
• Environment 
• Population

The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

Most organisms in an ecosystem eat only one type of organism

• True

• False

Plants make their own food

• True

• False

All the energy that organisms get from food matter originally comes from sunlight

• True

• False

All animals in an ecosystem depend on __________ for energy.

• Decomposers

• Producers

• Consumers

• Herbivores