Ecosystems Part 2

How does the food chain start?

• Plant life uses energy from the sun to make food.

• Insects like grasshoppers eat plant life.

• Animals like rats eat insects.

• Humans eat large animals and plant life.

What do we call an animal that gets eaten in a food chain?

• prey

• predator

• producer

• consumer

Which of the following are producers?

• plants

• humans

• snakes

• birds

What is the role of decomposers in the food chain?

• to consume plants and animals

• to produce food using energy from the sun

• to eat decaying matter and return nutrients to the soil

• to hunt prey

Seals eat fish. What would happen to the seal population if almost all of the fish died?

• The population would grow.

• The population would shrink.

How do consumers get energy to live?

• They make their own food from the soil.

• They break down decaying matter.

• They make their own food from the sun.

• They eat other plants and animals.

Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem
• Food flowing through an ecosystem
• Consumers going into other consumers
• Who eats who

What are animals called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Plants

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Organisms

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf