What are ecosystems?

• A community of living things and nonliving things that share a common environment.

• Living things including plants and animals.

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What are producers?

• Plants that make their own food, using sunlight, air, water, and nutrients in the soil.

• An animal that eats living things.

• An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces to be used again by producers.

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What are consumers?

• Plants that make their own food, using sunlight, air, water, and nutrients in the soil.

• An animal that eats living things.

• An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces to be used again by producers.

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What are the three types of consumers?

• Herbivores

• Omnivores

• Insectivores

• Carnivores

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Match the following vocabulary words to its definition.

• Omnivores

• A consumer that eats both plants and animals.

• Herbivores

• A consumer that eats only plants.

• Prey

• A consumer that eats only other animals.

• Predator

• An animal that hunts other animals to get its food.

• Carnivores

• An animal that is hunted by other animals for food.

What are decomposers?

• Plants that make their own food, using sunlight, air, water, and nutrients in the soil.

• An animal that eats living things.

• An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces to be used again by producers.

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Which is a decomposer?

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All the fish in a pond died. What will most likely happen to this ecosystem?

• The fish-eating animals will move to another pond.

• Flooding will cause the pond to increase in size.

• The animals in the ecosystem will all become herbivores.

• The pond will dry out to form a desert environment.

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Most food chains begin with a –

• predator

• large animal

• carnivore

• green plant

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What makes its own food using the sunlight, air, and water?

• Predators

• People

• Producers

• Populations

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