Food Chains
Food Webs
Vocabulary
Random
100
Name the part of the food chain where the organisms directly use energy from the sun.
What are producers?
100
Give an example of a decomposer found in a food web.
What is bacteria, fungi, worms, or mushrooms.
100
Name a producer found in a forest ecosystem.
Answers vary. Example: oak tree, grass, etc.
100
Which of the following describes an animal that hunts living living animals for food?
A. Prey
B. Predator
C. Scavenger
What is B? Predator.
200
Draw an example of a food chain.
Answers vary.
200
In this food web, which organisms are producers?
A. Owl and rat
B. Leaves and berries
C. Squirrel and leaves
What is B? Leaves and berries.
200
What is the organism that breaks down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients back into the soil called?
A. Producer
B. Consumer
C. Decomposer
D. Herbivore
What is C? Decomposer.
200
Which animals recycle waste and turns it into nutrients for the soil?
A. Squirrels
B. Worms
C. Snails
D. Birds
What is B? Worms (they are decomposers)
300
Where are producers located on the food chain?
A. At the end, because they rely on other organisms for energy.
B. Their position changes depending on what they are eating.
C. At the beginning, because they create their own food.
What is C? At the beginning, because they create their own food.
300
Identify 3 consumers found within this food web.
Answers vary. Example: deer, rabbit, squirrel, etc.
300
Which of the following do carnivores eat?
A. Bacteria
B. Producers
C. Fungi
D. Consumers
What is D? Consumers.
300
Which of the following would be a consumer in a desert ecosystem?
A. Shrubs
B. Snake
C. Cactus
What is B? Snake.
400
Which ecosystem would be eaten last in a food chain?
A. Decomposer
B. Producer
C. First level consumer
D. Second level consumer
What is D? Second level consumer.
400
Identify one food chain found within this food web.
Answers vary. Example: the rabbit eats the berries, then the fox eats the rabbit, etc.
400
Which of the following contains only decomposers?
A. Fungi, grass, monkey
B. Deer, flower, rabbit
C. Worms, bacteria, fungi
D. Sunflower, grass, oak tree
What is C? Worms, bacteria, fungi.
400
How do earthworms help plants to be able to survive in their habitats?
A. They provide water for the soil.
B. They fight diseases on the plants' roots.
C. The improve the quality of the soil.
What is C? Improve quality of soil.
500
Name the 3 different types of consumers, and what they eat.
What are herbivores (eat only plants), carnivores (eat only meat), and omnivores (eat both).
500
In the food web below, the removal of which organism would cause the most damage to the ecosystem?
A. Grass
B. Fox
C. Grasshopper
D. Rabbit
What is A? Grass (it is a producer)
500
Describe how decomposers help the environment.
What is "decomposers break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients back to the soil." (help soil stay fertile, etc)
500
What will happen to a grasshopper population if the grass population decreases?
A. The grasshopper population will increase because there will be more food.
B. The grasshopper population will decrease because there will be an increase in predators.
C. The grasshopper population will decrease because there will be less food available.
What is C? It will decrease because there will be less food available.