Grade 4 Science: Plants and Animals

A living thing that can use sunlight to make sugars is a(n) _____.
1. carnivore
2. consumer
3. producer
4. herbivore
Any living thing that depends on a producer for food is a _____.
1. omnivore
2. predator
3. decomposer
4. consumer
Plants use light energy to make sugar from water and _____.
1. carbon dioxide
2. sunlight
3. oxygen
4. chlorophyll
What do plants have that traps sunlight?
1. chlorophyll
2. carbon dioxide
3. holes
4. veins
What is the name of an animal that only eats other animals?
1. carnivore
2. herbivore
3. bully
4. decomposer
All living things that depend on producers for food are _____.
1. herbivores
2. consumers
3. predators
4. prey
The path of energy and materials in a community is a _____.
1. food web
2. wind tunnel
3. food chain
4. pollution
Plants can use light energy to make sugars by carrying on _____.
1. pollination
2. photosynthesis
3. chlorophyll
4. germination
Food chains that are connected in a community make up a ______.
1. food web
2. food chain
3. webbed chain
4. food link
Because it eats plants and animals, a bear is a(n) _____.
1. predator
2. herbivore
3. producer
4. omnivore
The producers of the oceans are _____.
1. coral
2. shells
3. sharks
4. algae
What happens when people add harmful substances to water?
1. food webs are created
2. chlorophyll is produced
3. pollution
4. food chains are created
Toads and raccoons eating grasshoppers are part of _____.
1. pollution
2. an ocean food chain
3. a land food chain
4. a food web
What is the name of the material in plants that traps light energy?
1. photosynthesis
2. algae
3. chlorophyll
4. carbon dioxide
An animal that is hunted and killed for food is the _____.
1. predator
2. omnivore
3. prey
4. herbivore
What kind of consumer puts materials stored in dead plants back into the soil?
1. herbivore
2. producer
3. carnivore
4. decomposer
An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food is _____.
1. decomposer
2. producer
3. consumer
4. a predator
A gas that plants need to make sugar is _____.
1. hydrogen
2. air
3. carbon dioxide
4. oxygen
What is the name of an animal that only eats other animals?
1. herbivore
2. bully
3. decomposer
4. carnivore
A consumer that uses dead plants and animals for food is a _____.
1. carnivore
2. omnivore
3. herbivore
4. decomposer

Grade 4 Science: Plants and Animals

Multiple-Choice ExerciseContent © 2002 Linda Marshall; Author of Activity: Tami Maloney; All rights reserved. No commercial, for-profit use of this material is allowed. E-mail comments and questions to Tami Maloney.

A living thing that can use sunlight to make sugars is a(n) _____.

Any living thing that depends on a producer for food is a _____.

Plants use light energy to make sugar from water and _____.

What do plants have that traps sunlight?

What is the name of an animal that only eats other animals?

All living things that depend on producers for food are _____.

The path of energy and materials in a community is a _____.

Plants can use light energy to make sugars by carrying on _____.

Food chains that are connected in a community make up a ______.

Because it eats plants and animals, a bear is a(n) _____.

The producers of the oceans are _____.

What happens when people add harmful substances to water?

Toads and raccoons eating grasshoppers are part of _____.

What is the name of the material in plants that traps light energy?

An animal that is hunted and killed for food is the _____.

What kind of consumer puts materials stored in dead plants back into the soil?

An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food is _____.

A gas that plants need to make sugar is _____.

What is the name of an animal that only eats other animals?

A consumer that uses dead plants and animals for food is a _____.

Multiple-Choice Exercise
Content © 2002 Linda Marshall; Author of Activity: Tami Maloney; All rights reserved. No commercial, for-profit use of this material is allowed. E-mail comments and questions to Tami Maloney.