Intro to Plants and Animals

What is a decomposer?

• An organism that preys on other organisms for food.
• An organism that helps in the pollination of flowers.
• An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is a producer?

• An organism that stores food

• An organism that makes their own food

• An organism that destroys other organisms

What is a scientific consumer?

• An organism that eats other organisms as it cannot produce its own food

• An organism that only eats meat

• An organism that eats both meat and plants

Which is an example of a decomposer?

• fungi

• birds

• grass

• sunlight

Which is an example of a producer?

• plant

• consumer

• mineral

• insect

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which organism is an example of a consumer?

• tree

• wolf

• grass

• fish

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

I am Mother Nature's recycler because I take dead things and turn them back into soil.

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of these are decomposers? (more than one answer)

• spider

• bacteria

• mushroom

• worm

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which one is NOT an example of a decomposer?

• mushroom
• leaves
• mold
• worm

Which kind of organisms are decomposers?

• bacteria and fungi

• fungi and insects

• bacteria and insects

• fungi and fruit trees

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4