Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers- Food webs/ Food chains

1. What is a producer?

A) An animal that eats plants
B) An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis
C) A person who sells food
D) A decomposer that breaks down dead things

• A

• B

• C

• D

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2. What does a consumer do?

A) Eats other organisms for energy
B) Makes its own food
C) Recycles nutrients into the soil
D) Creates sunlight

• A

• B

• C

• D

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3. Which of the following is a decomposer?

A) A lion
B) A mushroom
C) A cow
D) A fish

• A

• B

• C

• D

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4. What does “auto-” in autotroph mean?

A) Other
B) Plant
C) Self
D) Meat

• A

• B

• C

• D

An omnivore eats:

A) Only plants
B) Only meat
C) Both plants and animals
D) Only dead things

• A

• B

• C

• D

What is a food web?

A) A type of spiderweb in nature
B) A simple line showing what eats what
C) A system of many food chains connected
D) A group of only plants in an ecosystem

• A

• B

• C

• D

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A food chain shows:

A) How energy moves through an ecosystem
B) How animals help each other
C) How plants grow in a garden
D) How animals run away from predators

• A

• B

• C

• D

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What does “hetero-” mean in heterotroph?

A) Self
B) Other/different
C) Meat
D) Small

• A

• B

• C

• D

What does a herbivore eat?

A) Only meat
B) Only plants
C) Both plants and meat
D) Dead things

• A

• B

• C

• D

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What does a carnivore eat?

A) Only meat
B) Only plants
C) Both plants and meat
D) Nothing

• A

• B

• C

• D