Producers and Consumers in Ecosystems
Explore the roles of producers and consumers in an ecosystem with this Grade 3 science worksheet.
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Producers and Consumers in Ecosystems
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In an ecosystem, living things depend on each other for energy. We can group living things into producers and consumers.
Producers make their own food, usually from sunlight. Consumers eat other living things for energy.
1. Which of these is a producer?
A lion
A grasshopper
A tree
A human
2. What do consumers do to get energy?
Make their own food
Eat other living things
Sleep all day
Drink water only
3. Plants are examples of because they make their own food.
4. Animals that eat plants are called .
5. Look at the image below. Label the producer and the consumer.
Producer:
Consumer:
6. Give an example of a producer and an example of a consumer that you might find in your backyard.
Producer:
Consumer:
7. All animals are producers.
True
False
8. The sun is important for producers.
True
False