Ecosystems and food webs quiz review

___ create their own energy

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Producers

Plants are producers. What do plants NEED to produce energy?

• Soil

• Carbon Dioxide

• Gatorade

• Sunlight

• Water

____ must eat other organisms to gain energy.

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

_____ break down dead organisms and return minerals and nutrients back into the soil.

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

Fill in the Energy Chain in an Ecosystem

Sun > _____ > _____ > Decomposer

• Consumer, Producer

• Composer, Producer

• Produce, Constellation

• Producer, Consumer

• Producer, Composer

A ____ ____ is an interaction of multiple food chains in an ecosystem.

• Food Chain

• Food Store

• Food Lines

• Food Web

Food webs show which organisms provide ___ for other organisms

• Food

• Energy

• Dirt

• Warmth

A tiger gets the energy it needs to survive when it-

• drinks water from streams

• warms itself in the sun

• eats another animal

• sleeps in the tall grass

Plants and other producers get their energy by-

• removing energy from water

• absorbing the soil

• using the sunlight to create food (photosynthesis)

• releasing a gas into the air

If there were a fire in the grasslands, what change would likely occur in the food web there?

• There would be an increase in consumers

• Producers would need to find a new energy source

• Animals that eat plants would move away or starve