Understanding Food Chains

The video explains how plants and animals obtain food, highlighting the process of photosynthesis in plants and the role of producers and consumers in ecosystems. It also discusses the critical function of decomposers, such as fungi and bacteria, in breaking down dead organisms and recycling energy for other living things.

How do plants obtain their food?

• By absorbing nutrients from the soil

• By consuming other plants

• Through photosynthesis using sunlight

• By eating insects

What is the primary difference between how plants and animals get their food?

• Plants eat other plants, animals eat meat

• Plants produce their own food, animals consume other organisms

• Animals produce their own food, plants consume other organisms

• Both plants and animals produce their own food

What term is used for animals that eat plants or other animals?

• Photosynthesizers

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

Which of the following is an example of a consumer?

• A bacterium recycling nutrients

• A mushroom decomposing leaves

• A sheep eating grass

• A tree producing fruit

What role do decomposers play in an ecosystem?

• They compete with producers for sunlight

• They break down dead material and recycle nutrients

• They produce food from sunlight

• They consume other living organisms