Energy Roles in an Ecosystem

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Organisms

What is the role of a producer?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Gain energy from eating other organisms
• Keep other species from overpopulating
• Breaking down dead stuff 

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Organisms that is able to convert the energy from the sun into chemical energy (glucose).

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

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Organisms that eat other organisms to gain energy.

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Producer

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An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts is...

• scavenger
• consumer
• decomposer
• carnivore

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Which one is NOT an example of a decomposer?

• mushroom
• leaves
• mold
• worm

Living things in an ecosystem are known as

• abiotic

• biotic

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Select all of the terms that describe an autotroph

• organisms that produce their own food

• producers

• organisms that consume what they eat

• consumers

Select any animal that is just a carnivore

Select any animal that is just an herbivores

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