Food Chain

What is a producer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.

• Organism that eat other organisms for energy

• Organism that eat other dead organisms

Flies, worms and ants ead dead plants and animals. They are called:

• producers.

• consumers.

• decomposers.

• carnivores.

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Plants use energy to grow and make energy, so we call them:

• producers.

• consumers.

• decomposers.

• omnivores.

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What is a decomposer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.

• Organism that eat other organisms for energy

• Organism that eat other dead organisms

What type of organism is always at the beginning of a food chain and food web?

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Consumer

• Insectivore

A diagram showing the path of energy as it goes from one organism to another

• Food Web

• Arrows

• Food Chain

• Circle of Life

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What type of consumer will we never label an organism in a food chain?

• Consumer

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

What type of consumer is the Walleye in this food chain?

Algae--> Minnow --> Walleye --> Bacteria

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Scavenger

• Carnivore

What is the definition of a producer?

• An organism that makes food for OTHER organisms.

• An organism that has to eat to live.

• An organism that makes its OWN food.

• An organism that breaks down the remains.

What type of organism breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals?

• Scavenger

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Decomposer

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