4.9A & 4.9B-Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs

How are decomposers different from consumers?

• Decomposers eat nonliving material, and consumers eat living organisms.

• Decomposers make their own food, and consumers rely on other organisms for food.

• Decomposers eat consumers, and consumers eat producers.

• Decomposers live in the soil, and consumers live on Earth's surface.

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Which of these living things is an herbivore?

• elephant

• lion

• fungus

• tree

If decomposers were not present in an ecosystem, which is most likely to happen?

• Energy would not be transferred between organisms.

• Nutrients would not be recycled.

• Consumers would overpopulate the ecosystem.

• Producers would be unable to conduct photosynthesis.

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The Sun is the source of nearly all the energy on Earth. How does the Sun's energy enter a food chain?

• Animals make food using sunlight.

• Fossil fuels provide energy when they are burned.

• Heat from the Sun causes the greenhouse effect, which produces food.

• Plants use the Sun's energy to make food energy.

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Which animals will be affected if a fire kills all of the plant life in the forest?

• All of the animals

• The larger animals

• The animals with fur

• The animals that eat plants

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Which type of organism gets its energy by eating both plants and animals?

• Omnivore

• Producer

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

What is the source of all energy at the beginning of a food web?

• Producers

• Consumers

• The Sun

• Energy

Which of the following does a producer need to make its own food?

• Oxygen

• Shelter

• Animals

• Carbon Dioxide

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Photosynthesis is -

• How plants grow using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide

• An animal that gets energy by eating only plants

• Interconnected food chains that show the flow of energy

• An animal that gets energy by eating only other animals

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An herbivore is -

• An animal that gets energy by eating only plants

• Interconnected food chains that show the flow of energy

• An animal that gets energy from eating plants and animals

• An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

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