Food Chains and Food Webs Review

Front

What is a food chain?

Back

A food chain is a single path of energy transfer within a habitat, showing how one organism eats another.

Front

What is a food web?

Back

A food web represents all connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.

Front

Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from it in a food web?

Back

More than one organism may eat it.

Front

What happens to the grass population if the mouse population decreases?

Back

The grass population will increase.

Front

Which organism receives energy from the snake?

Back

Hawk.

Front

What do producers do in a food chain?

Back

Producers, like plants, create their own food using sunlight.

Front

What is a consumer in a food chain?

Back

A consumer is an organism that eats other organisms for energy.

Front

What role do decomposers play in a food web?

Back

Decomposers break down dead organisms, returning nutrients to the soil.

Front

What is an example of a primary consumer?

Back

A rabbit is an example of a primary consumer that eats plants.

Front

What is an example of a secondary consumer?

Back

A snake is an example of a secondary consumer that eats primary consumers like mice.