🌿 Ecosystems and Food Webs
Learn how energy flows through ecosystems and how organisms depend on each other for survival. **What you'll learn:** - Identify producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem - Understand energy transfer in food chains and food webs - Explain the role of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores - Recognize how ecosystems stay balanced through interdependence
Questions in this quiz
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- Question 1
What do we call organisms that make their own food using sunlight?
- Question 2
All animals are carnivores that eat only meat.
- Question 3
Which organism breaks down dead plants and animals and returns nutrients to the soil?
- Question 4
In a food chain, ___ transfer energy from one organism to the next.
- Question 5
A food web is more realistic than a food chain because most organisms eat many different types of food.
- Question 6
Which of the following would be a primary consumer in a grassland ecosystem?
- Question 7
A plant is a ___ because it produces its own food, while a rabbit that eats the plant is a ___ because it consumes the plant for energy.
- Question 8
Arrange these steps of energy flow in an ecosystem from start to finish.
- Question 9
If all the plants disappeared from an ecosystem, the herbivores and carnivores would also disappear.
- Question 10
In a forest ecosystem, a hawk eats a mouse, and the mouse eats seeds from plants. What role does the mouse play in this food chain?