Упр.3 Модуль 8 Extensive Reading ГДЗ Spotlight 7 класс
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 producer? All energy originally comes from ___1. 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 called producers.
What’s a consumer? Animals such ___3 grasshoppers get their energy from eating green plants like leaves. As they only eat plants, ___4 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 break down the complex organic compounds which then return to the soil so that plants can use ___6 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 a break in the link in the chain, then all organisms above this link are in danger of extinction. Imagine ___8 world without plants. How would animals survive?
1) the sun
2) are called producers
3) as grasshoppers
4) they are called herbivores
5) These organisms break down the complex organic compounds
6) plants can use them again
7) if there is a break in the link in the chain
8) Imagine a world without plants
Words in bold:
- producer — a living thing that makes its own food, usually a green plant;
- consumer — a living thing that gets energy by eating plants or animals;
- decomposer — an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into simpler substances;
- herbivores — animals that eat only plants;
- carnivores — animals that eat meat;
- omnivores — animals that eat both plants and animals.
