Module 1 Quiz

Question 1

What describes the role of a tertiary consumer in a food web?

Answer 1

Carnivore that feeds on secondary consumers

Question 2

Which of the following organisms are able to take energy from the sun and make it usable for living things?
-Consumers
-Decomposers
-Omnivores
-Producers

Answer 2

Producers

Question 3

what describes the feeding relationship from one organism to the next in a linear path?

Answer 3

food chain

Question 4

If we removed the decomposer from the food web, how would it affect the balance of the eco system?

THINK: what is a decomposer & what does it do?
example is a mushroom - decomposers consume decaying matter & return it to the soil

Answer 4

there would be an increase in dead matter and a lack of nutrients in the soil.

Question 5

Are primary or secondary consumers carnivores?

Answer 5

secondary consumers

Question 6

Which of the following is a producer?
-tree
-hawk
-rabbit
-mushroom

Answer 6

tree