Producers, Consumers, Decomposers, Food Chain, Food Webs

Decide if the following is correct and describes M for matter, E for ecosystem, or ME for both matter and energy.

• Air-Energy, Sunlight-Energy, Food-Matter & Energy, Water - Matter

• Air-Matter, Sunlight-Energy, Food - Matter & Energy, Water - Matter

• Air-Matter, Sunlight-Energy, Food-Energy, Water-Matter

• Air-Energy, Sunlight-Matter, Food-Matter, Water-Energy

__________eat producers or other consumers

• consumers

• herbivores

• omnivores

• decomposers

_____ eat only plants

• carnivores

• decomposers

• producers

• herbivores

________eat both plants and animals

• consumers

• omnivores

• producers

• decomposers

_______make their own food.

• carnivores

• decomposers

• producers

• consumers

_________ eat dead plants or animals and turns them into soil

• consumers

• carnivores

• decomposers

• producers

_____eat meat

• herbivores

• omnivores

• carnivores

• decomposers

What is needed in food webs?

• producers, carnivores, decomposers

• herbivores, carnivores, consumers

• producers, consumers, carnivores

• producers, consumers, decomposers

If the frog population suddenly increased , which organism would be most likely to decrease right away?

• owls

• snails

• snakes

• grass

Tarantulas live in a desert ecosystem. These spiders rest all day in burrows. At night they come out. They go back to their burrows during the day. What nonliving factors do you think affect the tarantulas' behavior?

• predators, wind

• moon, food supply

• light, temperature

• season, cloud cover