Energy Roles

What does "energy role" mean?

• how an organism gets its energy
• how organisms compete for limited resources
• how populations grow and develop over time
• how limiting factors determine carrying capacity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What energy role describes an organism that makes its own food, usually by using energy from the sun?

• consumer
• producer
• carnivore
• decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Aother word (a synonym) for a producer

• scavenger
• consumer
• autotroph
• heterotroph

What energy role describes an organism that cannot make its own food and therefore gets energy by eating other organisms?

• consumer
• producer
• autotroph
• sunlight

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Hetetrotroph is another word (a synonym) for

• scavenger
• producer
• autotroph
• consumer

All of the following are types of consumers EXCEPT for

• carnivore
• herbivore
• omnivore
• producer

Consumers that eat only meat are called

• decomposers
• herbivores
• carnivores
• omnivores

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Herbivores eat

• meat only
• plants only
• both meat and plants
• freshly dead organisms

Omnivores eat

• meat only
• plants only
• both meat and plants
• freshly dead organisms

Carnivores that eat freshly dead organisms are

• herbivores
• decomposers
• omnivores
• scavengers