WorksheetsEnergy and Matter in Ecosystems
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is a top consumer in a food web?
A consumer that does not have any predators.
A small fish that is a consumer.
A decomposer that breaks down dead animals.
Any predator that eats a producer.
Producers eat food from consumers.
A Kapok tree is a
producer
decomposer
consumer
predator
A change in one part of an ecosystem does not affect the other parts of that ecosystem.
Invasive species thrive because they have no predators or competition for resources.
Consumers are animals that eat other animals.
Which is the first link of a food chain?
producer
predator
scavenger
consumer
Every _________ , no matter how large or small, makes it own food.
producer
predator
consumer
herbivore
The ability to cause a change is
energy
carbohydrate
consumer
organism
A form of sugar made by plants through the process of photosynthesis
glucose
sugar
carbohydrate
energy
The continuing chemical reactions in living things that release and use energy
metabolism
sugar
energy
photosynthesis
All chemical energy for life comes from
sunlight
water
metabolism
consumer
This is a
food web
food chain
rain forest
tree of life
The process used by producers to make glucose and oxygen from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
photosynthesis
glucose
sugar
sunlight
Plants consume the soil they grow in.
Plants can change position to get the sunlight they need to survive.
Every food you eat either came from a plant or from something that ate plants.
What do plants do with oxygen?
release it into the atmosphere
breathe it in
use it to make energy
use it to stay hydrated
Organisms that eat only producers are called herbivores.
An animal that eats other animals are known as
carnivores
herbivores
omnivores
producers
Organisms that eat both plants and other animals are known as
omnivores
carnivores
herbivores
vegetarians
This is a
food chain
food web
producer
herbivore
Ecosystems include a sense of the flow of
energy and matter
sunlight and darkness
producers and consumers
light and energy
Ecosystems can be as small as a single drop of pond water.
In this food chain _______ is a producer.
grass
a lion
a dung beetle
the sun
In this food web a ________ is a top consumer?
kite
goat
snake
wild cat
According to this food web, what does a rabbit eat?
green plant
jackal
mouse
lion
In a food web the arrows tell us
how the energy and matter flow
what each organism eats
what is at the top of the food chain
