Exploring Food Chains in Study Jams

Mia introduces her pet lizard, Rhino, and discusses its diet of live crickets. The video explains the concept of a food chain, detailing the roles of producers, herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers. It highlights how energy is transferred through these levels and the importance of each in maintaining ecosystem balance. The video concludes with a recap of the food chain's structure and significance.

When one organism eats another, ____ gets passed along the food chain.

• oxygen

• vitamins

• energy

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Plants use energy from the ___ to make their own food.

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________ get their energy by eating other things.

• Consumers

• Producers

• Plants

• Candies

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A type of consumer that eats plants is called a ____.

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Decomposer

Carnivores are animals that eat ___.

• dog food

• plants

• meat

• junk food

Some carnivores eat other carnivores.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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The food chain can be described as _____.

• a place to hang out

• the connection of plants to other plants

• a flow of energy from one organism to another

• several grocery stores that sell the same things

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The original source of energy for food chains is ___.

• the sun

• a plant

• an animal

• the earth

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Organisms that eat only plants are ___.

• consumers

• carnivores

• herbivores

• decomposers

These are responsible for breaking down dead organisms and returning minerals and nutrients to the ecosystem.

• carnivores

• herbovores

• omnivores

• decomposers