Ecosystem Restoration Ch. 2

Uses and stores energy from the sun which flows to all other life-forms

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Consumer

• Organism

Eats or consumes other living things for food

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Bacteria

breaks down the unused dead material and turns into nutrients in the soil, which plants use to grow

• Plants

• Sun

• Consumer

• Decomposer

Are decomposers needed for a food chain to maintain its cycle?

• No

• Yes

What do the arrows on a food web or chain represent from one organism to the next?

• Which animal is getting eaten

• Which animal is the predator

• The flow of energy

• Nothing

Energy in an ecosystem comes from ___

• Plants

• Animals

• Decomposers

• Sun

Plants use water molecules, carbon dioxide molecules from the air, and energy from the sun to make ___.

• Food

• Water

• Energy

• movement

Animals and plants grow by changing food molecules into body molecules that can build their ___

• Shelter

• Energy

• Bodies

• Natural Resources

___ in an ecosystem can always be traced back to the sun.

• Oxygen

• Plants and animals

• Growth

• Energy

Animals and plants use some food molecules to release energy for ___ and ___.

• Movement

• Growth

• Oxygen

• Bodies