Unit 7 Ecology

The original source of energy for a food web is...

• plants

• sun

• producers

• decomposers

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Decomposers get energy from...

• the sun

• eating plants

• eating animals

• dead things and waste

Producers are ...

• plants

• able to do photosynthesis

• also called autotrophs

• all of these are true

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Who is the producer?

• lettuce

• greenfly

• ladybird

• thrush

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What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

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An animal that hunts other animals for food is a ___________

• herbivore

• predator

• prey

• omnivore

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What is a herbivore?

• an animal that gets energy from eating other animals

• an organism that gets energy from eating only plants

• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem

• food web

• environment

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What is a carnivore?

• an animal that gets energy by eating other animals

• An animal that gets energy by eating only plants

• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals