Food Chains & Food Webs

An organism that needs sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make its own food is a(n)

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that is dependent on other organisms for food is a(n)

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• food chain

The transfer of food energy in a sequence of living things is a

• photosynthesis

• producer

• predator

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead plant and animal matter is a(n)

• prey

• predator

• decomposer

• person

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A consumer that eats only plants is a(n)

• herbivore

• plantivore

• carnivore

• decomposer

An animal that is eaten by another animal is a(n)

• producer

• herbivore

• prey

• food chain

The process by which plants make food is

• sunlight

• food chain

• photosynthesis

• photograph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Match the following examples with their correct categories.

• scavenger

• mouse

• omnivore

• grasshopper

• herbivore

• lion

• decomposers

• vulture

• carnivore

• mushroom

What is the producer in this food chain?

• plant

• insect

• frog

• hawk

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the decomposer in this food chain?

• grass

• grasshopper

• mouse

• racoon

• mushrooms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3