How Does the Food Chain Affect Living organisms

How Does the Food Chain Affect Living Organisms

By Olivia Bailey

Food Chain

A food chain shows how organisms are connected by the food they eat. It is the transfer of energy in the form of food from one organism to another. It begins with producer organisms. The organisms in each part of the food chain depend on each other as a source of food.

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​Decomposers eat dead organisms and use them to make nutrients for the soil.

Decomposers​

​Consumers eat other organisms for energy.

Consumers​

​Producers use sun and nutrients in the soil, to make food for themselves and other organisms.

Producers

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What is it called when a group of food chains link together?

Multiple Choice

Overpopulation can result in more consumers than producers, resulting in a food shortage.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which type of food chain component creates energy?

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Consumer

Multiple Choice

If one part of the food chain disappears, the food chain would not be affected.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a type of Consumer?

• Omnivores

• Pescavores

• Carnivores

• Herbivores

• Decomposers

Multiple Choice

Which of the following does not begin the food chain?

• Sun

• Plants

• Bugs

• Soil

Multiple Choice

The following order of a food chain is correct:

The grass uses the sun and soil to grow; The grasshopper eats the grass; The grasshopper is eaten by a frog; The frog is is eaten by a snake; The snake is eaten by a hawk; The hawk dies and decomposes; Bacteria and fungi consume the carcus.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following breaks down dead plants, animals and the waste of other organisms?

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Predator

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Plants and Algae are examples of

.

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Organisms are

creatures.

Multiple Choice

One effect on the food chain is habitat loss, which can lead to underpopulation. What effects can habitat loss have on the ecosystem?

• Too many predators and not enough prey

• Extinction

• Animal's inability to hide from predators and humans

• All of the above

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