Food Chains
Food Webs
Decomposers
The Flow of Energy
What's in a word?
100

Correctly order the following organisms into a food chain

snail, heron, algae, fish

What are algae, snail, fish, heron?

100

Which organisms directly provide energy to the seals?

What are squid and fish?

100

What is the role of the bacteria and fungi in the following food web?

What are decomposers?

100

Which type of organisms get their energy directly from the sun?

What are producers?

100

The way energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem.

What is a food chain?

200

What is missing from the following food chain?

sun - green plants - ? - carnivore

What is an herbivore?

200

Which organisms will receive the most energy and matter from the snakes?

What is the hawk?

200

Decomposition and decay of organic matter are accomplished by the action of ...(be specific) name at least two

What are bacteria, fungi, earthworms or dung beetles?

200

Based on the diagram, the diving beetle gets energy from the tadpole.  the tadpole gets energy from a 

What are producers, such as plant plankton?

200

An organism that makes its own food, the foundation of a food chain.

What is a producer?

300

The food chain represents a what-eats-what relationship that transfers energy from one organism to another.

sun - flower - rabbit - ? - owl

What is most likely missing?

What is a carnivore?

300

Which two organisms in the picture are producers?

What are small and large plants?

300

Which organisms can be classified as decomposers?

What are Fungi and Bacteria?

300

Which type of organism gets their energy from Producers?

What are primary consumers?

300

An animal that feeds on flesh,

What is an carnivore?

400

Below is a rain forest food chain but there is a mistake.  How could you fix the mistake?

grub worm - plant - javelina - jaguar

What is switch the grub worm and the plant?

400

A food web shows the relationships between what organisms?

What are plants and animals?

400

Name the purpose of decomposers? Be sure to use the important vocabulary word!

To recycle nutrients back into the environment

400

What happens to the energy that is transferred from organism to organism as it goes up the energy pyramid?

What is decreased, energy is lost, only 10% of the energy is transferred?

400

Organisms that live at the top of the food chain and have few to no natural predators.

What are Apex predators?

500

This is a desert food chain.

sun - cactus plant - cottontail rabbits - snakes - bobcats

Which organism receives the least energy?

What are bobcats?

500

The animals found at the top of the pyramid are known as

What are Apex Predators?

500

Which two organisms from the food web are decomposers?

What are bacteria and mushrooms?

500

Which organism will receive the most energy and matter from the snakes?

What is the Hawk?

500

An animal that feeds on plants?

What is an herbivore?

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