5th Grades Ecosystems and food web review

Ecosystem means:

• Living

• Nonliving

• All the living and nonliving factors in an area

• A group of different populations of organisms

What is the definition of a producer?

• An organism that makes food for OTHER organisms.

• An organism that has to eat to live.

• An organism that makes its OWN food.

• An organism that breaks down the remains.

What type of organism is always at the beginning of a food chain and food web?

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Consumer

• Insectivore

What type of organism breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals?

• Scavenger

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Decomposer

What is the definition of a consumer?

• An organism that produces its own food.

• An organism that has to eat other organisms to live.

• An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals.

• An organism that never eats anything and does not produce its own food.

A diagram showing the path of energy as it goes from one organism to another

• Food Web

• Arrows

• Food Chain

• Circle of Life

A collection of interacing parts that work together to make a whole or preform a function

• system

• subsystem

• ecosystem

• biosphere

A system within a system

• system

• subsystem

• ecosystem

• biosphere

__________ is an organism that only eats plants for energy.

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Omnivore
• Terivore

__________ is an organism that eats BOTH plants and animals for energy.

• Omnivore
• Darnivore
• Carnivore
• Herbiovre