What is an ecosystem? Beg 2

Producers get nutrients from...

• soil

• consumers

• dead animals and plants

• plants

Consumers _____ producers and other consumers.

• put nutrients into

• break down

• eat

• feed

A healthy ecosystem must be _____.

• producer

• nutrients

• nonliving

• balanced

True or false: Humans and natural disasters can disturb the balance of an ecosystem.

• True

• False

Who puts nutrients back into the soil?

• producers

• consumers

• decomposers

How do producers get energy?

• From the sun

• From consumers

• From pollution

• From other producers

The cycle of moving nutrients between producers, consumers, and decomposers makes a...

• food chain

• natural disaster

• consumer

Natural disasters and human activities like pollution can ____ the balance of an ecosystem.

• cycle

• disturb

• food chain

• nutrient

Who gets nutrients from animals and plants after they die?

• decomposers

• producers

• consumers

The community of living and nonliving things in an area is an...

• decomposer

• ecosystem

• nutrients

• consumer