Producers and Consumers
Explore the roles of producers and consumers in an ecosystem with this fourth-grade science worksheet.
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In every ecosystem, living things depend on each other for energy. We can group living things into two main categories: producers and consumers.
Producers are organisms that make their own food, usually using sunlight. Consumers are organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
1. Which of the following is an example of a producer?
Lion
Grass
Human
Wolf
2. An animal that eats plants is called a:
Carnivore
Omnivore
Herbivore
Decomposer
3. Plants are called because they make their own food.
4. Animals that eat other animals are called .
5. Look at the food chain diagram below. Identify one producer and one consumer.
Producer:
Consumer:
6. Explain in your own words the difference between a producer and a consumer.
7. All consumers eat only plants.
True
False
8. The sun is the main source of energy for most producers.
True
False