Unit 6 Energy and Ecosystems

Some organisms break down dead things for food.  Which word describes these organisms?

• consumers
• decomposers
• herbivores
• producers

How are decomposers like consumers?

• They provide energy to producers.
• They capture prey in order to survive.
• They can make their own energy from sunlight.
• They get their energry from producers or other organisms.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle, which organisms take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen as part of the process of making food?

• animals
• consumers
• plants
• plants and animals

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the primary source of energy for producers?

• carbon dioxide
• oxygen
• soil
• sunlight

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the process that plants use to produce food?

• carbon dioxide
• photosynthesis
• chloroplast
• sunlight

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Producer such as plant uses a molecule called chlorophyll.  Which need does chlorophyll help to meet?

• making food
• releasing oxygen
• absorbing soil nutrients 
• taking in carbon dioxide

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which type of organism makes its own food?

• consumer
• decomposer
• producer
• scavenger

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is an animal that eats only producers?

• carnivore
• omnivore
• herbivore
• indicator species

Animals take in _________ and gives off ___________.

• oxygen, carbon dioxide
• carbon dioxide, oxygen
• helium gas, oxygen
• sunlight, energy

The number of predators tend to rise when there is a rise in the number of _________.

• plants
• scavengers
• decomposers
• prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4