Producers, Consumers, and Food Web

If a fire on the grasslands happened, what change would likely occur in the food web there?

• Producers would have to find a new energy source.

• Plants would be able to produce more food.

• There would be an increase in consumers.

• Animals that eat plants would move away or starve.

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An elephant gets the energy it needs to survive when it __________.

• Drinks water from streams

• Warms itself in the sun

• Eats grass and leaves

• Sleeps on the ground

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A pond food chain is illustrated here. In this food chain, the large fish gets it energy by __________.

• absorbing sunlight

• eating plants

• preying on small fish

• being food for the hawk

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Energy that moves through the organisms in a food web originally comes from the _________.

• Moon

• Sun

• Water

• Soil

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Which of the following processes best describes how plants get their energy? Plants get their energy by ________.

• using sunlight to make food

• absorbing it from the soil

• removing the energy from water

• putting gases into the air

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An animal that gets energy by eating only other animals

• Food web

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Photosynthesis

An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.

• Carnivore

• Consumer

• Herbivore

• Producer

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Interconnected food chains that show the flow of energy in an ecosystem

• Photosynthesis

• Food web

• Consumer

• Carnivore

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Which process best describes how plants get their energy? Plants get their energy by –

• using sunlight to make food

• removing energy from water

• absorbing it from the soil

• putting gases into the air

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Which type of organism gets its energy by eating both plants and animals?

• Omnivore

• Producer

• Carnivore

• Herbivore