Food Chains and Food Webs

Food Chains and Food Webs Notes

By Azalea Wagner

​​Eats or DECOMPOSES all the organisms after they die

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What is the role of a producer?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Gain energy from eating other organisms
• Keep other species from overpopulating
• Breaking down dead stuff 

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What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Eat other organisms to gain energy
• Make the food for the whole food chain
• Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

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Which type of consumer eats plants only?

• Herbivores
• Omnivores
• Carnivores
• Scavengers

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Which type of consumer eats meat only?

• Producers
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores

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Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?

• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Plants

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In this food chain, where does the lizard get its energy from?

• plant

• grasshopper

• mushrooms

• sun

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What is a food web?

• a web created by a spider to trap its food
• a network of food chains in an ecosystem
• a community of plants and animals
• the food that one animal eats

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What is a food chain?

• A long chain made of food 
• A list of ingredients used to cook food 
• How animals depend on plants and animals to survive

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What do you call an animal that hunts and eats other animals?

• Prey
• Producer
• Predator 
• Decomposer 

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Which is an example of a producer?

• A Human
• A Spider
• A Tree 
• A Caterpillar 

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What do Omnivores eat?

• Meat
• Plants 
• Meat and plants 
• Only meat 

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An animal that eats plants rather than other animals is called:

• Meat Eater
• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Omnivore

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If an animal becomes extinct, which part of the food chain is affected? 

• The whole food chain is affected
• Only animals at the top of the food chain are affected 
• Only animals at the bottom of the food chain are affected 

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A plant or animal that gets its energy (food) from other living things is called:

• Decomposers
• Consumers
• Carnivores
• Herbivores

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The complex network of food chains in an ecosystem is called:

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Ecosystem
• Population

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An ordered arrangement of animals and plants in which each feeds on the one below it in the chain is called:

• Habitat
• Population
• Food Chain
• Food Web

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Which one is NOT an example of a decomposer?

• mushroom
• leaves
• mold
• worm