Energy in an Ecosystem

A diagram that shows overlapping food chains

• Food chain

• Food Web

• Energy Pyramid

• organisms

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What do you call an organism that transfers the Sun's energy into food?

• consumer

• producer

• vegetrarian

• decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

This organism consumes dead plants and dead animals for energy. How can you classify this organism?

• carnivore

• decomposer

• herbivore

• producer

This organism eats seeds, acorns, snails, and crickets? What is this organism's niche?

• carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

• producer

This organism converts the Sun's energy into food. How do you classify it?

• consumer

• decomposer

• carnivore

• producer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which of these is a possible order enery moves through an ecosystem?

• herbivore, carnivore, sun, producer, decomposer

• sun, producer, herbivore, carnivore, decomposer

• sun, producer, predator, consumer, decomposer

• producer, sun, carnivore, herbivore, decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A diagram that shows overlapping food chains

• food chain

• energy pyramid

• food web

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A diagram that shows how energy is used, stored, and passed on in each level of a food chain

• food web

• food chain

• energy pyramid

• organism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that break down the nutrient remains of dead things

• organisms

• decomposers

• consumers

• producers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A single path that shows how food energy moves from one organism to the next in an ecosystem

• food web

• food chain

• energy pyramid

• organism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3