Ecosystems Quiz!

What is an ecosystem?

• A living thing

• a community of interacting biotic and abiotic elements

• a non-living thing

• An organism that eats other organisms

A food chain...

• Consists of all the interactions in a single ecosystem

• Is stable in an ecosystem

• A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

• A link of organisms

What happens if you remove an organism from the food chain?

• The entire world will end

• Disrupts the balance of the entire food chain

• Will disrupt the balance for a few days

• Will not show any signs of disruption in the food chain

What is a consumer?

• cannot make their own energy and rely on the consumption of other consumers to survive

• a mushroom

• make their own food that allows them to create energy, grow and reproduce

• a plant

what is a producer?

• Clean up crew

• Eat other organisms to survive

• break down waste and dead organisms

• create their own food to survive from the sun

What is a decomposer? Hint: more than one answer is correct.

• Clean up crew!

• Gets energy from eating other organisms

• Feed on dead organisms to cycle the materials back into the ecosystem

• Creates their own energy

Producer, Decomposer, or Consumer?

• Producer

• Consumer

• none of the above

• Decomposer

Producer, Decomposer, or Consumer?

• Producer

• Consumer

• none of the above

• Decomposer

Producer, Consumer, or Decomposer?

• Producer

• Consumer

• none of the above

• Decomposer

A food web...

• Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

• Is stable in an ecosystem

• Shows what happens in reality

• All of the above