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The Energy Journey in the Wild: From Sunlight to Predators

Questions: 5

Grade: 5

Words: 81

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Sunlight beams down on green plants, providing energy for photosynthesis, the process that lets plants make their own food. These plants, called producers, are eaten by animals, the consumers. Herbivores munch on leaves, and carnivores hunt these herbivores, transferring energy up the food chain. But energy decreases at each step! Finally, decomposers, like worms and fungi, break down fallen leaves and dead animals, returning nutrients to the soil. This cycle of nutrition and energy maintains the balance in our amazing ecosystem!

Question 1

What process allows plants to make their own food?

Digestion

Respiration

Photosynthesis

Explanation. Photosynthesis is the process that allows plants to use sunlight to make their own food.

Transpiration

Radiation

Question 2

What happens to the energy as it transfers up the food chain?

It increases

It stays the same

It changes form

It decreases

Explanation. As energy transfers up the food chain, it decreases at each step.

It disappears

Question 3

What type of organisms break down fallen leaves and dead animals, returning nutrients to the soil?

Producers

Consumers

Herbivores

Carnivores

Decomposers

Explanation. Decomposers, like worms and fungi, break down fallen leaves and dead animals, returning nutrients to the soil.

Question 4

What type of animals eat plants?

Carnivores

Omnivores

Herbivores

Explanation. Herbivores are animals that eat plants.

Decomposers

Predators

Question 5

What is the main purpose of the described cycle of nutrition and energy?

To increase the energy in the ecosystem

To decrease the energy in the ecosystem

To maintain the balance in the ecosystem

Explanation. The cycle of nutrition and energy helps to maintain the balance in our amazing ecosystem!

To create new organisms in the ecosystem

To destroy the old organisms in the ecosystem

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