3-3 Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Quiz

Which of the following best describes a producer?

• Breaks down dead plants and animals for nutrients

• Eats plants or animals for energy

• Makes its own food using sunlight

• Only eats other animals

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Which term matches the definition: "Breaks down dead plants and animals for nutrients"?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Herbivore

What is the role of a consumer in a food chain?

• Makes its own food using sunlight

• Eats plants or animals for energy

• Breaks down dead plants and animals

• Produces oxygen

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Which of the following is an example of a producer?

• Mushroom

• Grass

• Fox

• Rabbit

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Which of the following is an example of a decomposer?

• Rabbit

• Fox

• Mushroom

• Grass

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Which of the following is an example of a consumer?

• Grass

• Rabbit

• Mushroom

• Sunlight

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Why are decomposers important to the environment?

• They make their own food using sunlight

• They eat plants and animals for energy

• They break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the soil

• They produce food for consumers

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If the fox eats the rabbit in the food chain, what is the fox's role?

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Herbivore

Are you a carnivor, herbivore, or omnivore? Why?

Label this food chain

c

d

b

e

a

decomposer

sun

secondary consumer

producer

primary consumer

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