Name: ____________________________________________ Date: __________________________ Period: _________

Producer, Consumer, and Decomposer WebQuest

Go to: https://tinyurl.com/foodchainandweb
◼ Producers
1. What is an example of producers?

2. Why are plants called producers?

3. What ingredients do producers use to produce their food? (third sentence)

4. What is the form of “food” that plants produce?

5. What process do plants use to generate glucose/sugar?

◼ Click on the image to learn about photosynthesis

6. What is photosynthesis?

7. What are absorbed by the plant for photosynthesis to occur?

8. What is the energy/food that the plant uses them to create?

9. What is produced by the plant, and where does it go?

◼ Click the “Back” button in the upper left of the internet browser.
◼ Consumers
10. What is an example of consumers?

11. Why do animals need to consume/eat plants and/or other animals?

12. What are herbivores?

13. What are carnivores?

14. What are omnivores?

15. What are humans – herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores? Why?

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◼ Click on the “Herbivores” image.
16. What do herbivores eat?

17. Give several examples of what herbivores eat.

18. What are several examples of herbivores?

◼ Click on the “Carnivores” image.

19. What do carnivores eat?

20. What does this include?

21. Give several examples of carnivores.

◼ Click on the “Omnivores” image.

22. What do omnivores eat?

23. Give several examples of omnivores.

◼ Go back to the first page you started on.

◼ Decomposers
24. What are two examples of decomposers?

25. They eat ___________________ _________________ - dead _____________ and ______________

and in the process they break them down and _________________________ them. When

that happens, they ____________________ ________________________ and

__________________ salts back into the soil – which then will be used by ________________!

◼ Click on the “Decomposers” image.

26. What do decomposers consume?

27. How do decomposers play an important role in nature?

28. How do decomposers help plants?

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Use this link if the tinyurl on the front page doesn’t work:
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/producersconsumers.htm
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