Ecosystem Quizizz

Please read the description and look at the food chain. Choose all the correct answers.

• Caterpillars get their energy directly from the sun.

• Caterpillars get their energy directly from plants.

• Caterpillars use their energy that originally came from the Sun, but they can't use energy directly from the sun.

• Caterpillars give energy to plants and plants give energy to the sun.

What would you place at the beginning of this food chain in order for all the organisms to get matter and energy.

_______ --->plants--->caterpillars--->birds

• worms

• organism

• sun

• grains

If the light from the sun was blocked for a long period of time, which one of these organisms would survive?

_______ --->plants--->caterpillars--->birds

• plants

• caterpillars

• birds

• none of these organisms would survive

True or False:

Carnivores do not produce their own food or eat green plants, but the organisms that they eat get their energy from green plants.

• True

• False

All energy in an ecosystem first came from the sun.

• True

• False

If there were suddenly no decomposers—no mushrooms, no mold, no fungus, no worms—what do you think would happen to the forest system?

• The dead leaves will continue to pile up.

• A herbivore will eat the dead leaves.

• The dead leaves will disappear with magic.

• The dead leaves will grow into new plants.

What materials do plants mainly use to grow?

• Take in air through their leaves.

• Eat the soil.

• Sunlight

• Eat other plants around them.

Plants grown in soil without worm castings grow taller.

• True

• False

True or False:

Herbivores get their energy directly from the sun.

• True

• False

What would happen if there were no plants in the food chain?

• Animals would not be affected.

• Animals would have to find other sources of food or they will not survive.

• Animals would get their energy directly from the sun.

• There would be no impact on the food chain.