Ecology TK

Match the following

• makes own food

• consumer

• recycles nutrients

• decomposer

• eats

• producer

• human

• example of a consumer

• plants & algae

• example of producer

Match the following

• plant or algae

• producer

• autotroph

• example of an autotroph

• human

• consumer

• heterotroph

• example of a heterotroph

put the organisms in order from most energy to least energy

• bird

• plants

• worms

• lion

Reorder the following based on most amount of energy to least amount of energy

• carnivore

• producer

• herbivore

Which of the following is NOT a consumer

• grass
• dog
• shark
• fish

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

What would happen to the hawk population if the shrews were removed?

• they would increase

• they would decrease

How do decomposers get energy?

• They break down dead or decaying matter.

• They eat live organisms.

• They get energy from the Sun.

• They get energy from the moon.

Bacteria is an example of a 

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf