Food Chains

An ______ is an independent living thing.

• consumer
• producer
• organism
• herbivore

_________ cannot make their own food, so they need to consume (eat) plants or animals.

• consumers
• producers
• decomposers

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The  ____________ provides all the initial energy to plants.

• sun
• moon
• environment
• water

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____ make their own food through photosynthesis. 

• consumer
• decomposer
• producer

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What does a food chain contain? Choose ALL correct answers.

• consumer
• producer
• decomposer
• all of the above

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__________ eat decaying matter, dead plants and animals and in the process they break them down. 

• consumer
• producer
• decomposer

_______are animals that eat only plants.

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore

_______ are animals that eat only animals (meat).

• herbivore
• omnivore
• carnivore

_________ are animals that eat BOTH plants and animals. 

• omnivore
• carnivore
• herbivore

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a _______ shows how each living thing gets food and how nutrients and energy are passed from organism to organism. 

• ecosystem
• food chain

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