Middle School Ecology

A producer is something that:

• Eats plants

• Makes its own food

• Eats animals

• Eats plants and animals

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Producers are always at the __________ of a food chain or food web.

• Beginning

• Middle

• End

• Producers are not part of the food chain

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Consumers...

• Make their own food

• Go through photosynthesis

• Eat other organisms

• Breathe in carbon dioxide

What do the arrows show in this food chain:

plant → grasshopper → bird → snake → owl.

• The arrow points from the organism being eaten to the organism that eats it.

• The arrow points from the organism that eats it to the organism that is being eaten.

• The arrow points from biggest animal to smallest animal.

• The arrow points from the consumers to the producers.

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What is the producer in this food chain?

phytoplankton → krill → fish → shark

• Phytoplankton

• Krill

• Fish

• Shark

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As you move up a food chain, the amount of energy stored....

• Increases

• Decreases

• Stays the same

• It depends on the ecosystem

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Arrows in a food web show the flow of

• energy

• protein

• nutrients

• glucose

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Multiple food chains that interact together are called a ....

• Spider Web

• Food Spider

• Food Web

• Web of Food

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What do decomposers do?

• feed off of dead or decaying organisms

• feed off of living organisms

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Which two animals compete for the same food source?

• rabbit and hawk

• fox and grasshopper

• snake and owl

• frog and snake

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