Let's Farm Some Shrimp!

Let's Farm Some Shrimp!

Multiple Choice

Where are people in the shrimp food chain?

• close to the very bottom

• about in the middle

• close to the top

• at the very top

Multiple Choice

What is the main point of the reading?

• Shrimp are part of nature's food chain.

• Shrimp have very specialized diets and will not eat a variety of foods.

• Aquaculture is not a profitable business.

• Few birds or other animals eat shrimp.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true about aquaculture?

• An aquaculturist can throw some young shrimp in a pond, and they will take care of themselves.

• It means “cultivating small acreages of land.”

• An aquaculturist must tend to the tanks carefully to make sure predators do not eat the shrimp.

• The tanks are large aquariums built in warehouses.

Multiple Choice

The main point of paragraph 4 is that -

• wild shrimp are close to the bottom of the food chain

• Mr. Adamson needs to keep predators out of his tanks

• Mr. Adamson is an aquaculture technician

• most aquaculture shrimp are eaten by people

Multiple Choice

Examine the diagram of the food web described in this passage. Using arrows, how would you label the direction of energy flow through this web?

• starting at the edges and flowing toward the shrimp

• starting at the shrimp and flowing outward

• starting at the plankton and flowing upward

• starting at the birds and flowing downward