General Science - Chapter 1 - Environmental Science - Review

"Nature's recyclers" are

• predators
• decomposers
• producers

How energy moves through an ecosystem can be represented by ________________

• food chains
• food webs
• energy pyramids
• All of the above

The base of an energy pyramid represents which organisms in an ecosystem?

• producers
• carnivores
• herbivores

Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called.

• producers
• carnivores
• herbivores

Organisms that eat producers or other organisms to obtain energy are called ____________.

• producers
• consumers
• decomposers

Organisms that get energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms are called_______________.

• producers
• consumers
• decomposers

Most producers are _____________

• herbivores
• consumers
• plants

Which of the following best describes your part in your ecosystem.

• a source of energy for living things
• a producer
• a consumer

A ___________ is a consumer that eats plants.

• carnivore
• herbivore
• scavenger

A ___________ is a consumer that eats animals.

• carnivore
• herbivore
• scavenger