3.2 Study Guide

Question 1

What is a producer?

Answer 1

the bottom of a food web, creates from sunlight and energy.

Question 2

What is a consumer?

Answer 2

An animal that eats the producer and sometimes other animals.

Question 3

What is a decomposer?

Answer 3

An animal that eats other animals and provides things like nutrients to the producers.

Question 4

Give an example of a consumer

Answer 4

A sea urchin eating kelp in a kelp forest.

Question 5

Give an example of a producer

Answer 5

the phytoplankton in the ocean that are eaten by other animals.

Question 6

What type is a sea bird that eats small fish and provides nutrients to the kelp?

Answer 6

Decomposer

Question 7

What type is a shark that eat small fish that eat kelp?

Answer 7

Consumer (Secondary)

Question 8

Make a food chain of your own with an four animals and label it.

Answer 8

Algae(Producer)->Bottom-feeder(Primary Consumer)->Octopus(Secondary Consumer)->Shark(Tertiary Consumer)