Упражнение 3 Модуль 8 Extensive
ГДЗ Spotlight 7 класс - ответы

3 Read the text and fill in the gaps (1-8) with the correct word. Listen and check. Explain the words in bold.
What’s a producter?
All energy originally comes from 1) the sun. Green plants can't hunt or shop for food, so they simply use sunlight and water to make it. Green plants usually start food chains. They 2) are called producers.

What’s a consumer?
Animals such 3) as grasshoppers get their energy from eating green plants like leaves. As they only eat plants, 4) they are called herbivores. Carnivores, like lions or some birds, only eat meat. Omnivores eat plants and animals. Anything that eats another plant or animal to get energy is called a consumer.

What’s a decomposer?
The food chain ends with dead animals that fungi and bacteria use as food. 5) These organisms break down the complex organic compounds which then return to the soil so that plants can use 6) them again. That's how the food chain starts all over again.

Why is the food chain important?
The food chain provides the energy that all living things need in order to survive. If 7) there is a break in the link in the chain, then all organisms above this link are in danger of exrindion. Imagine 8) a (the) world without plants. How would animals survive?