Rainforest Food Webs

Question 1

In a rainforest, a kapok tree uses sunlight to make its own food, a jaguar hunts a capuchin monkey, and a mushroom grows on a fallen log and breaks it down. Which answer correctly matches each organism with the term producer, consumer, or decomposer?

Accepted Answer

Kapok tree – producer; Jaguar – consumer; Mushroom – decomposer.

Answer

Kapok tree – consumer; Jaguar – producer; Mushroom – decomposer.

Answer

Kapok tree – producer; Jaguar – decomposer; Mushroom – consumer.

Answer

Kapok tree – consumer; Jaguar – consumer; Mushroom – producer.

Question 2

A bright green bromeliad leaf falls to the forest floor. Glittercap fungus and tiny beetles break the leaf into tiny pieces, and later a young sapling nearby grows tall. Which sentence best explains why the sapling can use the leaf’s material?

Accepted Answer

The fungus and beetles change the leaf into nutrients that enter the soil, and the sapling’s roots absorb those nutrients.

Answer

The fungus and beetles keep the leaf’s nutrients inside their own bodies, so the sapling cannot get them.

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The fungus and beetles wash the leaf’s pieces into a river, taking the nutrients away from the soil.

Answer

The fungus and beetles turn the leaf into fresh oxygen that the sapling breathes.

Question 3

In a rainforest, which word describes a tree that makes its own food using sunlight?

Accepted Answer

Producer

Answer

Consumer

Answer

Decomposer

Answer

Predator

Try three questions

In a rainforest, a kapok tree uses sunlight to make its own food, a jaguar hunts a capuchin monkey, and a mushroom grows on a fallen log and breaks it down. Which answer correctly matches each organism with the term producer, consumer, or decomposer?

A bright green bromeliad leaf falls to the forest floor. Glittercap fungus and tiny beetles break the leaf into tiny pieces, and later a young sapling nearby grows tall. Which sentence best explains why the sapling can use the leaf’s material?

In a rainforest, which word describes a tree that makes its own food using sunlight?

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