WorksheetsFast & Curious: Ecology #5
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Decomposers have a "job" in the ecosystem. What is their "job"?
To clean the water.
To make food using air, water, and sunlight.
Decomposers eat dead animals and dead plants.
Decomposers hunt other animals.
What is an example of a decomposer?
Bees
Plants
Wolves
Fungi
How do decomposers get their energy?
By breaking down the matter of dead animals and dead plants.
They get their energy from the sun.
Decomposers don't need energy.
By cleaning the water in an ecosystem.
Why are decomposers so important to the ecosystem?
Decomposers hunt other animals and make sure they don't overpopulate.
Decomposers help make nutrients that go back in to the soil. These nutrients help plants grow.
Decomposers clean the water in the ecosystem.
Decomposers use sunlight to make food for the ecosystem.
Bees play a role in the ecosystem too. Bees are known as...?
Decomposers
Predators
Producers
Herbivores
Bees also have a "job" in the ecosystem. What is their "job"?
Bees eat dead animals and plants, removing waste from the environment.
Bees pollinate plants. This helps plants reproduce.
Bees make their own food using sunlight.
Bees hunt other animals by stinging them.
Why are bees so important?
Without bees, plants would not be able to reproduce.
Without bees there would be less plants.
Plants need bees to help spread their pollen.
All of the above.
How do plants help the bees?
Plants make the forest smell good.
Plants provide water for the bees.
Plants provide food for bees.
Plants provide a home for the bees.
What kind of "relationship" do bees and plants have?
Predatory
Commensalism
Parasitic
A mutually beneficial relationship. (Mutualistic)
Bees are...
diplopods (oranisms with 2 legs)
arachnids (spiders, ticks, & mites)
arthropods (organisms with many jointed legs)
fungi (mushrooms & mold)
