Chapter 5

Question 0

Consumer

Answer 0

An animal that eats plants or other animals

Question 1

Producer

Answer 1

Any living thing that can make its own food

Question 2

Herbivore

Answer 2

An animal that eats only plants, or producers

Question 3

Carnivore

Answer 3

An animal that eats only other animals

Question 4

Omnivore

Answer 4

An animal that eats both plants and other animals, a consumer

Question 5

Decomposer

Answer 5

A living thing that feeds on wastes and the remains of dead plants and animals

Question 6

Habitat

Answer 6

An environment that meets the needs of a living thing

Question 7

Niche

Answer 7

How a living thing interacts with its habitat

Question 8

What does each living thing in a habitat have

Answer 8

Niche

Question 9

Food Chain

Answer 9

The movement of food energy in a sequence of living things

Question 10

Prey

Answer 10

Consumers that are eaten

Question 11

Predator

Answer 11

A consumer that eats prey

Question 12

Food Web

Answer 12

Several food chains that overlap

Question 13

Energy Pyramid

Answer 13

Shows how much energy is passed from one living thing to another along a food chain

Question 14

What must a pond food chain have

Answer 14

Sunlight because plants use energy in sunlight to produce food

Question 15

How much energy is used at each level of an energy pyramid and not passed on

Answer 15

90% is passed on and 10% is stored

Question 16

What animal is always at the top of the food chain

Answer 16

Predator

Question 17

Which of these could survive without being part of a food chain a strawberry plant, a chicken, or a dog

Answer 17

A strawberry plants because plants are producers and producers can make their own food so producers can survive without being in a food chain

Question 18

How is an energy pyramid different from a food chain

Answer 18

A food chain has arrows pointing to what each animal eats and an energy pyramid doesn’t

Question 19

How is a predator and a carnivore alike? How are they different?

Answer 19

They are the same because they both eat other animals. They are different because the predator might eat plants too.

Question 20

If soil is very dry in a forest with animals and plants are not growing what can you infer is happening to the consumers in this area?

Answer 20

I can infer that the consumers are not getting any food from the plants since plants need damp soil to grow. All the consumers are most likely to be eating only other animals.

Question 21

What do herbivores eat

Answer 21

Plants, Producers

Question 22

What term includes herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?

Answer 22

The term consumers include herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores